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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
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Age: 36 †
Born: 1802
Born: August 14
Died: 1838
Died: October 15
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anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
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From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.
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Curiosity is its own suicide.
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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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the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
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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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Hard are life's early steps and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
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Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
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The stars are so far, far away!
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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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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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