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We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.
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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The dream on the pillow, That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea Ay,--ask thine own bosom-- Are emblems of thee.
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anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
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Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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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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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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Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
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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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Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.
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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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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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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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Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.
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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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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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If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.
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