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All beginnings are very troublesome things.
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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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.
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The stars are so far, far away!
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charity is a calm, severe duty it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.
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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.
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Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
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I do love violets they tell the history of woman's love.
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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
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Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.
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Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.
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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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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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