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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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Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.
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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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Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
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Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.
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Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
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Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.
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Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.
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One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
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Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.
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Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
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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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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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In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.
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Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
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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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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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