Few save the poor feel for the poor. Letitia Elizabeth Landon More Quotes by Letitia Elizabeth Landon More Quotes From Letitia Elizabeth Landon habit is our idea of eternity. Letitia Elizabeth Landon habit eternity ideas Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity. Letitia Elizabeth Landon next habit firsts It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter. Letitia Elizabeth Landon humor heart witty It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit. Letitia Elizabeth Landon affection habit 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 imagination fire water We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse. Letitia Elizabeth Landon impulse 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 equality together class 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 suicide fire may English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced. Letitia Elizabeth Landon england fire people 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 doubt mind spring And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break! Letitia Elizabeth Landon fate winning heart Eyes that droop like summer flowers. Letitia Elizabeth Landon flower eye summer A blossom full of promise is life's joy, Letitia Elizabeth Landon light joy promise The wind has a language, I would I could learn! Letitia Elizabeth Landon sleep song sweet Curiosity is its own suicide. Letitia Elizabeth Landon curiosity suicide marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it. Letitia Elizabeth Landon dating seems want though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there. Letitia Elizabeth Landon mud destiny luck doubts, like facts, are stubborn things. Letitia Elizabeth Landon stubborn doubt facts I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things. Letitia Elizabeth Landon cold hate dull Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial. Letitia Elizabeth Landon mother education lying
