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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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A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
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... 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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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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Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!
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there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.
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Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.
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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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Sneering springs out of the wish to deny and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
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We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings, it can summon with a touch.
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Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.
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The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
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Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.
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Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
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Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
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The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
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Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
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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.
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Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
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