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Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
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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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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But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
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the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
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Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
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Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
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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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I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.
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Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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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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Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
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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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I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.
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marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.
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of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
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I do love violets they tell the history of woman's love.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
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