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Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
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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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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the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
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The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
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charity is a calm, severe duty it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.
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Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!
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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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Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.
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The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
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We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.
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Nothing but love can answer to love no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.
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