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Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
Charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
Though fortune’s wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
Politeness, however, acts the lady’s maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
He who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
Who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears? (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
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 Quotes)
To the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
Youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others! (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
... many a heart is caught in the rebound... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes)