Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

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The present! it sinketh with sorrow and care,
That but for the future, it never could bear;
We dwell in its shadow, we see by its light,
And to-day trusts to-morrow, it then will be bright.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
And this is Love! Oh! why should woman love;
Wasting her dearest feelings, till health, hope,
Happiness, are but things of which henceforth
She'll only know the name?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
And you, my fine poet, who thought that the earth
To another such minstrel could never give birth,
Already your works are all thrown on the shelf,
And their author condemn'd as an ignorant elf.—
Yes ; look thro' the world, and this truth you will find
That, once out of sight, you are soon out of mind.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Music moves us, and we know not why;
We feel the tears, but cannot trace their source.
Is it the language of some other state,
Born of its memory ? For what can wake
The soul's strong instinct of another world,
Like music?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The bright cloud shone on the river's face,
But the death-black waters had not a trace
Of the crimson blaze that over them play'd :
It seem'd as if a curse were laid
On the grass, on the river, the tree, and the flower,
And shut them out from the sunbeam's power ;

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Ah! love is even more fragile than its gifts!
A tress of raven hair:—oh, only those
Whose souls have felt this one idolatry
Can tell how precious is the slightest thing
Affection gives and hallows.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The peasant boy, who followed the coloured track of the rainbow, hoping to find the blue and charmed flower which springs where the arch touches earth, is wiser far than one who gives youth, genius, and time to literature.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I believe the love of flowers to be as inherent in the disposition as any other inclination.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is so sad —
So very lonely — to be the sole one
In whom there is a sign of change!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
… unshared mirth only damps the spirits of a small circle …

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Time is the great leveller, but he is also the sanctifier and the beautifier.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Unveil'd, unmask'd ! not so, not so !
Ah ! thine are closer worn
Than those which, in light mockery,
One evening thou hast borne.
The mask and veil which thou dost wear
Are of thyself a part;
No mask can ever hide thy face
As that conceals thy heart.

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
Mother:
Children and sorrow come together. First
Are sleepless nights, and cradle watchings — next
Your age is vexed with maiden fantasies,
And your girl's lover costeth you more care
Than ever did your own. It is not well !

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Clara:
Neighbours, dear friends, ye dream, ye dream : awake!
Gaze not on me with sadly wondering eyes,
I only bid you to your actual wish.
My voice is but the voice of your own hearts.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
He knelt him down on the new-raised mound,
His face was bowed on the cold damp ground,
He raised his head, his tears were done,
The father had prayed o'er his only son!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I do firmly believe that the Londoner is as contented with his city home as the dweller in the fairest valley among the Appennines ; and that habit brings its usual indifference as to place.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We do too little feel each others' pain;
We do relax too much the social chain
That binds us to each other; slight the care
There is for grief in which we have no share.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is not him, not the bold enemy
That rushes fiercely on the healthful breast.
For such I have no fear. 'Tis this dull jail
That makes the hero and the coward one !

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
True love is timid, as it knew its worth,
And that such happiness is scarce for earth.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We enjoy no pleasure so much as we do tormenting ourselves.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We hope, plan, execute; will it be in vain?
Or will the future be the past again?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Strange, that ignorance should be our best happiness in this life, and yet be the one we are ever striving to destroy !

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
But there are natural temples still for those
Eternal though dethroned Deities,
Where from green altars flowers send up their incense:
This fount is one of them. —

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding — the latter a very animated enjoyment.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Where on earth is the truth that may vie
With woman's lone and long constancy?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Thrice venomed is the wound when 'tis Love's hand
Inflicts the blow.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Beautiful weakness! oh, if weak,
That woman's heart should tinge her cheek!
'Tis sad to change it for the strength
That heart and cheek must know at length.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon