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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
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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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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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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Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.
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Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.
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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
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If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.
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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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Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
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Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
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I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
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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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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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Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.
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