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Youth is a season that has no repose.
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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Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!
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The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
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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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We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.
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Farewell's a bitter word to say.
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Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
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Childhood, whose very happiness is love.
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Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.
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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.
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Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
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Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.
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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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The stars are so far, far away!
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Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.
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