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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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In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.
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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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I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
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Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
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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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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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My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
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the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
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