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The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
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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I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.
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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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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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