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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
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Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.
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It is strange what society will endure from its idols.
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Business before pleasure.
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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
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Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
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To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.
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Do anything but love or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship never let him know how dear he is flit like a bird before him lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.
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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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The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
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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.
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habit is our idea of eternity.
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Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
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words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.
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In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.
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Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
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But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
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All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
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Youth is a season that has no repose.
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Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.
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