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We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The fearless make their own way.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
All beginnings are very troublesome things.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Childhood whose very happiness is love.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
O no, my heart can never be Again in lighted hopes the same - The love that lingers there for thee Has more of ashes than of flame.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Are we not like that actor of old time, Who wore his mask so long his face took Its likeness?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers-that deep sigh with which they seem to waken from sleep; the first dew, untouched even by the light foot of the early hare; the first chirping of the rousing birds, as if eager to begin song and flight; all is redolent of the strength given by rest, and the joy of conscious life.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
... who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
to enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others; ...
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
So much to win, so much to lose, No marvel that I fear to choose.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I can pass days Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees, Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,- The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs,- Each tree a natural harp,- each different leaf A different note, blent in one vast thanks-giving.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
-true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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