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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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the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
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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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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 dream on the pillow, That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea Ay,--ask thine own bosom-- Are emblems of thee.
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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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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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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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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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I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.
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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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there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.
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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
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It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.
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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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But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
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Curiosity is its own suicide.
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Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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