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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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Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.
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There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable.
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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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Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
charity is a calm, severe duty it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.
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youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.
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Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
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But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
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We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
