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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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Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
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Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame.
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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.
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We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
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We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.
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The stars are so far, far away!
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Curiosity is its own suicide.
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to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.
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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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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
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One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
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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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How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
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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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Nothing but love can answer to love no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.
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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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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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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.
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When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.
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