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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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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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Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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Farewell's a bitter word to say.
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... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.
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It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.
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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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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
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though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.
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How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
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Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
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Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
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habit is our idea of eternity.
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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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I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
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Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
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Hard are life's early steps and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
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charity is a calm, severe duty it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.
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Nothing but love can answer to love no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.
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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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Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!
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