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Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
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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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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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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Sneering springs out of the wish to deny and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
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Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
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Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
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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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Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
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There is a large stock on hand but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
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How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
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I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.
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... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.
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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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habit is our idea of eternity.
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Curiosity is its own suicide.
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Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.
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