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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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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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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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Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.
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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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One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
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I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.
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Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public.
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The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
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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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The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
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Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
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to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.
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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
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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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We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
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Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.
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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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