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All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
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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We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings, it can summon with a touch.
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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.
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Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
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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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Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
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Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
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Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true without it, we are little, false, and mean.
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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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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.
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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
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My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
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Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
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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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The stars are so far, far away!
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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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