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There is a large stock on hand but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
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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Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
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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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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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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 disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
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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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Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
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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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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
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The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.
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anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
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