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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Age: 36 †
Born: 1802
Born: August 14
Died: 1838
Died: October 15
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Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.
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Curiosity is its own suicide.
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Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
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There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.
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he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.
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marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
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In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.
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The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
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Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
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I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.
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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
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I can pass days Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees, Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,-- The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs, Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.
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It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.
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anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
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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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Hard are life's early steps and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
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Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
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