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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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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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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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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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Farewell's a bitter word to say.
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Youth is a season that has no repose.
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The stars are so far, far away!
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I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
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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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Nothing but love can answer to love no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.
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When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.
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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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Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame.
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Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
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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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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
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... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
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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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How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
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There is a large stock on hand but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
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