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But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
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 hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.
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Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
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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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A blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time, Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light, And it looks flourishing--a little while-- 'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone.
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Childhood, whose very happiness is love.
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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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Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
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... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
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The stars are so far, far away!
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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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Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.
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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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