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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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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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I do love violets they tell the history of woman's love.
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Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
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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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Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
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Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.
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It is strange what society will endure from its idols.
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All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
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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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There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.
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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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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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of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
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Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
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Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.
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Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.
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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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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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