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Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame.
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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Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.
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We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
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Business before pleasure.
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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
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