Letitia Elizabeth Landon quotes - page 13

Distinction is purchased at the expense of sympathy. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
But the knowledge of the library is not that of the world; a youth of solitude is bad preparation for a manhood of action; from the earliest age we need to mingle with our kind; the child corrects and instructs the child more than their masters; our equals are the tools wherewith experience works out its lessons; and the play-ground, with its rival interests, its injustices, its necessity for the ready wit and the curbed temper is both miniature and prophesy of the world, which will but bring back the old struggles only with a sterner aspect, and the same successes, but with more than half their enjoyment departed. View quote
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Tis May again, another May, Looking as if it meant to stay; So many are its thousand flowers, So glorious are its sunny hours, So green its earth, so blue its sky, As made for Hope's eternity. View quote
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Oh, nothing has the memory of love! View quote
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Cecil Forrester was heir to many misfortunes, being handsome, rich, high-born, and clever. View quote
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What we may do To-morrow may perhaps decide our fate. We may have said but yesterday some word Which may not be recalled. View quote
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Sketches indeed, from that most passionate page, A woman's heart, of feelings, thoughts, that make The atmosphere in which her spirit moves. View quote
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Oh, softest is the cheek's love-ray When seen by moonlight hours Other roses seek the day, But blushes are night flowers. View quote
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How much we give to other hearts our tone, And judge of others' feelings by our own! View quote
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It was a summer evening; and the sea Seem'd to rejoice in its tranquillity; Rolling its gentle waters to the west, Till the rich crimson blush'd upon their breast, Uniting lovingly the wave and sky, Like Hope content in its delight to die. View quote
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Perhaps it is a benevolent provision of Nature that we remember more what touches than what pains us. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
Can loveliness lose its power? Ah, yes! when love can lose its truth. Weak and impetuous, yielding to temptation, but trembling to enjoy the reward of the committed crime; such is the man of whom my heart made its divinity, - for whose sake I would have toiled as a slave; ay, and do; but with far other aim now. Let us but once meet again, Jehanghire, and thou art mine! but I - I can never be thine again. Life, throne, fortunes, we will yet share together; but my heart, never, never more! View quote
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As a story teller, Scott is unrivalled; he would have made the fortune of a cafe at Damascus. View quote
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I envy thee, thou careless wind! How light, how wild thy wandering : Thou hast no earthly chain, to bind One fetter on thy airy wing. View quote
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I do love violets: They tell the history of woman's love; They open with the earliest breath of spring; Lead a sweet life of perfume, dew, and light; And, if they perish, perish with a sigh Delicious as that life. View quote
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Like a human thought in quest Of a future hour. View quote
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Merciful God, thou dost not answer me! I made my choice on earth, and now my heart Has no asylum. Ye decide for me, And such a destiny is best. View quote
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I LOVED her! ay, I would have given A death-bed certainty of heaven If I had thought it could confer The least of happiness on her! View quote
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I dreamed a dream, that I had flung a chain Of roses around Love,-I woke, and found I had chained Sorrow. View quote
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... we English people delight in a moral - not a moral to be deduced or inferred, but a nice, rounded, little moral, in all the starch of set sentences, and placed just at the end. View quote
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The weakness of our nature-how soon any strong emotion masters it! (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
How I pity those whose childhood has been unhappy! to them one of the sweetest springs of feeling has been utterly denied, the most green and beautiful part of life laid waste. View quote
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How very desolate that breast must be, Whose only joyance is in memory! And what must woman suffer, thus betrayed?- Her heart's most warm and precious feelings made But things wherewith to wound: that heart-so weak, So soft-laid open to the vulture's beak! View quote
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Life has little breathing time; and, even when we do for a moment reflect, it is rather on our present than our past : the pains and pleasures of memory are put aside as quickly as the poem which celebrates them. View quote
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No one can say farewell with indifference. View quote
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