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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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We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.
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Do anything but love or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship never let him know how dear he is flit like a bird before him lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.
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Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.
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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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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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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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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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Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
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youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.
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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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Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.
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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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The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
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All beginnings are very troublesome things.
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of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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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