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Youth is a season that has no repose.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music?
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Business before pleasure ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Affection exaggerates its own offenses ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
No hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.
— 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
Praise - actual personal praise - oftener frets and embarrasses than it encourages. It is too small when too near.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Oh, no! my heart can never beAgain in lightest hopes the same;
The love that lingers there for thee
Hath more of ashes than of flame. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Distinction is purchased at the expense of sympathy
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The fearless make their own way ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Curiosity is its own suicide ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
My heart is its own grave!
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A woman only can understand a woman ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Fame is bought by happiness.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is strange what society will endure from its idols.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Confidence is its own security.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Alas! the praise given to the earNe'er was nor ne'er can be sincere. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
In came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I would give worlds, could I believeOne-half that is profess'd me;
Affection! could I think it Thee,
When Flattery has caress'd me. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
— 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
Habit is our idea of eternity.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
All beginnings are very troublesome things ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Farewell's a bitter word to say.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning!
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Were it not better to forgetThan but remember and regret — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The past is perpetual youth to the heart.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
He who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We are ourselves our happiness.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
— 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
All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I never cast a flower away,A gift of one who car'd for me;
A flower
a faded flower,
But it was done reluctantly. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon