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Water—the mighty, the pure, the beautiful, the unfathomable—where is thy element so glorious as it is in thine own domain, the deep seas ? What an infinity of power is in the far Atlantic, the boundary of two separate worlds, apart like those of memory and of hope ! or in the bright Pacific, whose tides are turned to gold by a southern sun, and in whose bosom sleep a thousand isles, each covered with the verdure, the flowers, and the fruit of Eden ! But, amid all thy hereditary kingdoms, to which hast thou given beauty, as a birthright, lavishly as thou hast to thy favourite Mediterranean ? The silence of a summer night is now sleeping on its bosom, where the bright stars are mirrored, as if in its depths they had another home and another heaven. A spirit, cleaving air midway between the two, might have paused to ask which was sea, and which was sky. The shadows of earth and earthly things, resting omen-like upon the waters, alone shewed which was the home and which the mirror of the celestial host. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
The good and the generous action of which we feel incapable is a reproach when done by another. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Conjugal government requires its treatises. A young woman setting out in life lacks a printed guide. Her cookery-book, however, may afford some useful hints till one be actually directed to the important subject just mentioned. Many well-known receipts are equally available for a batterie de cuisine or du cœur. Your roasted husband is subdued by the fire of fierce words and fiercer looks — your broiled husband, under the pepper and salt of taunt and innuendo — your stewed husband, under the constant application of petty vexations — your boiled husband dissolves under the watery influences — while your confectionized husband goes through a course of the blanc mange of flattery, or the preserves and sweets of caresses and smiles. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
When we trace to their source the most important circumstances of our life, in what trifles have they originated ! — a look, a word, are the ministers of fate. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Once set a strong mind thinking, and you have done all that it needs for its education. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Nothing more indicates those tastes and habits which go so far towards both making and showing the character — as a person's sitting-room. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Our own faults are those we are the first to detect, and the last to forgive, in others. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
There are no weaknesses which we so thoroughly despise as those to which ourselves have yielded. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Who, in after life, can help smiling at the fancies in which early anticipation revelled ; how absurd, how impossible, do they not now appear! Yet, in such mockery lurks much of bitterness : the laugh rings hollow from many a disappointment, and many a mortification. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
There are in existence two periods when we shrink from any great vicissitude—early youth and old age. In the middle of life, we are indifferent to change ; for we have discovered that nothing is, in the end, so good or so bad as it at first appeared. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
'Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in them, and death. A word can send The crimson colour hurrying to the cheek. Hurrying with many meanings; or can turn The current cold and deadly to the heart. Anger and fear are in them; grief and joy Are on their sound; yet slight, impalpable:-- A word is but a breath of passing air. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Each was changed in himself, and yet each thought the other only changed, himself the same. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
I am a woman : — tell me not of fame ! – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
I wrote my name upon the sand; I thought I wrote it on thine heart. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
I dreamed a dream, that I had flung a chain of roses around Love, — I woke, and found I had chained Sorrow. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Silence is love's own peculiar eloquence of bliss. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
The same, yet not the same – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Nothing circulates so rapidly as a secret. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
THE present! it is but a drop from the sea In the mighty depths of eternity. I love it not—it taketh its birth Too near to the dull and the common earth. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 9 years ago
The history of most fictions would be far stranger than the fictions themselves ; but it would be a dark and sad chronicle. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 9 years ago
It is a mistake to be born — another to live — and a third to die. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 9 years ago
Few, save the poor, feel for the poor. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 9 years ago
Alas ! the contrast between us, and what We can create; That man should be so little in himself, His works so great. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 9 years ago
Life has one vast stern likeness in its gloom – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 9 years ago

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