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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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Letitia Landon
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Letitia Maclean
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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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What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.
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My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
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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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I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
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Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
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It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.
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Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.
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Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.
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Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
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Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.
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the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
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In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.
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One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The dream on the pillow, That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea Ay,--ask thine own bosom-- Are emblems of thee.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
