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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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Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.
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How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
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Childhood, whose very happiness is love.
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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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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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the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
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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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The stars are so far, far away!
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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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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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Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
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I can pass days Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees, Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,-- The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs, Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.
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Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.
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Youth is a season that has no repose.
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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
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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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Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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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Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Do anything but love or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship never let him know how dear he is flit like a bird before him lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.
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