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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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Letitia Landon
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Letitia Maclean
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Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.
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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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One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
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We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings, it can summon with a touch.
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Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.
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Youth is a season that has no repose.
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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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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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of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
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The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
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I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.
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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
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There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.
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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
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The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
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Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
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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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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
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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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A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
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