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Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
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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The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
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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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Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
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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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Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
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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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Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
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Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
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It is strange what society will endure from its idols.
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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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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
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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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Do anything but love or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship never let him know how dear he is flit like a bird before him lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.
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The dream on the pillow, That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea Ay,--ask thine own bosom-- Are emblems of thee.
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Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.
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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
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Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
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Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.
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