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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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There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.
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marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
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words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.
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Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
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Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
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How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
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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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Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.
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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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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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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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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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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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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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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
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Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true without it, we are little, false, and mean.
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Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
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Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.
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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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