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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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he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.
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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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Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true without it, we are little, false, and mean.
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Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.
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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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A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
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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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Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.
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