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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
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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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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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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The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
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Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.
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anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
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of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
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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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I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.
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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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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
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Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public.
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there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy.
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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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Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
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Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
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But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
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The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
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Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame.
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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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