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The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
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 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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The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
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The stars are so far, far away!
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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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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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One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
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Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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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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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
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charity is a calm, severe duty it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.
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We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.
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Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
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All beginnings are very troublesome things.
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Youth is a season that has no repose.
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... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
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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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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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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 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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the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
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