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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
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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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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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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Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.
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There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable.
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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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There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.
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Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
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Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
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marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
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It is said that ridicule is the test of truth but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer 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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youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.
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Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.
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there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy.
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I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.
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How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
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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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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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Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!
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... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
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