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Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
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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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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What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.
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When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.
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habit is our idea of eternity.
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Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.
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There is a large stock on hand but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
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Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
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I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.
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All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
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I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.
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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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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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We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
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anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
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Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
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