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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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 heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
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My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
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In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.
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All beginnings are very troublesome things.
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Childhood, whose very happiness is love.
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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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Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.
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There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.
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habit is our idea of eternity.
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Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
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Youth is a season that has no repose.
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The stars are so far, far away!
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Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public.
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There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable.
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The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
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