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Letitia Elizabeth Landon was an English poet of the Romantic era, celebrated for her romantic verse. Born on August 14, 1802, she was a prominent figure in the literary scene of her time. Her work, often characterized by themes of love, nature, and the passage of time, left a lasting impression on readers and fellow writers. Tragically, her career was cut short when she passed away on October 15, 1838, at the age of 36.

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“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.”

Should Mistake Compassion Strange Duty Intellectual Paid Charity Calm Debt Fulfillment Merit Severe

Book:The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...

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“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.”

Should Has Beens Lying Mother Education Destiny Ignorance Universal Vices Portions Idleness Beneficial Admission

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“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.”

Should Truth Is Deny Allowance

Book:The Complete Works of L.E. Landon

Source: The Complete Works of L.E. Landon

“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.”

People Ifs Should Country Opinion Virtue Taste Opposites Excellence Indispensable Immoral

Book:The Complete Works of L.E. Landon

Source: The Complete Works of L.E. Landon

“It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.”

Thinking Knows Should Speech

Book:Romance and Reality

Source: Romance and Reality

“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!”

Should Form Imagination Opinion Mystery Strange Genius Dependent Ethereal

Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon

About the Author

Born: August 14, 1802
Died: October 15, 1838
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 165

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