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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c23e2ee | It is so sad -- In whom there is a sign of change! | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 82548d0 | This volume was written for children. Miss Landon set out its purpose in the preface. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| a89c753 | Selfishness is hypocritical by nature, and seizes on the first decent excuse as a cloak ; | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 8992fe9 | Nothing discourages a child so much as the impossibility of pleasing. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 9a28496 | I believe the love of flowers to be as inherent in the disposition as any other inclination. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 4cc681a | Now, bitter, but useful, mortification is the steppingstone to knowledge, even in a child. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 9147d82 | Expectation makes a long delay. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 71b4376 | we all know mysteries are very fascinating things. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 64ef83e | November's night is dark and drear,The dullest month of all the year. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 0fe9f4d | To know yourself less beloved than you love, is a dreadful feeling | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 2b76d89 | We read of the gales that bear from the shores of Ceylon the breathings of the cinnamon groves. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 52f5649 | The Little Boy's Bed-Time See under Translations | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 582da1a | Thrice venomed is the wound when 'tis Love's handInflicts the blow. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| ccebcbd | A light compliment was never yet breathed by love. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 0be6e85 | A man above thirty cannot enter into the wild visions of an enthusiastic girl. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 8a701af | Words are powerless to tell. --Painter, try thy glorious art ! | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| da8b13d | Beauty should be around the beautiful. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| a1282b9 | The moon is darkened in the skyAs if grief 's shade were passing by; | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 60230ab | I will look on the stars and look on thee,and read the page of thy destiny. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 88df0ee | A luxury of deep repose ! the heartMust surely beat in quiet here. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 6d00889 | God ! that this Earth should be so beautiful,And yet so wretched ! | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 0d72b1c | Oh, the heartKnows not the power of music till it loves ! | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| afb37f2 | Oh ! never should a woman's words be moreThan sighs which have found utterance. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 2ea216e | Happiness ! pleasure I should rather say,Happiness never made on earth a stay -- | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| effc16a | His heart is like a maggot-eaten nut:There's nothing in it ; but 'tis closely shut. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 24cc649 | They know there must be May within the year, Else would they never dream that May was here. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 91dedb1 | Literary taste is often confounded with literary talent by others, quite as much as by ourselves. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 13171d5 | But wit cuts its bright way through the glass-door of public favour; | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 86cc830 | We deny that poetry is fiction; its merit and its power lie alike in its truth: | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 5cee533 | She had always thought she would be like her father, and fancied a tall, dark, and handsome face. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 3d80b03 | A London day requires to be well aired before it is ventured into. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 83e21fc | We enjoy no pleasure so much as we do tormenting ourselves. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 0fb45a7 | who cares for a general compliment more than a general lover. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| e68793d | Fame to a woman is indeed but a royal mourning in purple for happiness. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 3b646ed | Expectation is in itself a very pretty sort of reality. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| cb954b6 | They say suppers are very unwholesome, our grandfathers and grandmothers never discovered it ... | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 9d13499 | unshared mirth only damps the spirits of a small circle ... | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| b0e2371 | A will of his own in a young man without a shilling is a superfluity, | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 6368d55 | that worst bump developed that can adorn the head of a bore--viz., long-story-tellativeness. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 7fbf03b | Time is the great leveller, but he is also the sanctifier and the beautifier. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 474a5f7 | Now a nation's character is in its literature. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| d067672 | Why, the very element of poetry is faith--faith in the beautiful, the divine, and the true. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 45bb45b | By turns the woman and the queen,And each as the other had never been. | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | ||
| 099c007 | They named him -- ah ! yetDo I start at that name ; | Letitia Elizabeth Landon |