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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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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
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of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
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Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
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Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.
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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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Sneering springs out of the wish to deny and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
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Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
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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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It is strange what society will endure from its idols.
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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
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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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The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
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The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
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habit is our idea of eternity.
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Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
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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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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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Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
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Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.
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