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Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.
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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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
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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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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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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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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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Business before pleasure.
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I do love violets they tell the history of woman's love.
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My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
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I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
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