The first love-letter is an epoch in love's happy season — it makes assurance doubly sure — that which has hitherto, perhaps, only found utterance in sweet and hurried words, now seems to take a more tangible existence. A love-letter is a proof of how dearly, even in absence, you are remembered.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

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How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers—that deep sigh with which they seem to waken from sleep; the first dew, untouched even by the light foot of the early hare; the first chirping of the rousing birds, as if eager to begin song and flight; all is redolent of the strength given by rest, and the joy of conscious life.

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I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

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There is the cause for pleasure and for pain:

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We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they mak... by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

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It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.

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Ah, tell me not that memory

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Confidence is its own security. by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Confidence is its own security.

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Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know... by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the w... by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

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We are ourselves our happiness. by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We are ourselves our happiness.

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To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others. by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.

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The fearless make their own way. by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The fearless make their own way.

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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.

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I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of t... by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

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All beginnings are very troublesome things. by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All beginnings are very troublesome things.

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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come sin... by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

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Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

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All profound truths startle you in the first announcement. by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

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who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had al... by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

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