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The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.
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 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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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
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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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We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
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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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Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
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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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