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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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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
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All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
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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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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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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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Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.
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Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
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To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.
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... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.
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Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
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Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
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Farewell's a bitter word to say.
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I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.
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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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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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Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.
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Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
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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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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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A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
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