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marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
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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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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Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.
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... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
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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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There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.
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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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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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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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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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Hard are life's early steps and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
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It is strange what society will endure from its idols.
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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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The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.
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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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A blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time, Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light, And it looks flourishing--a little while-- 'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone.
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All beginnings are very troublesome things.
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