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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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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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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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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 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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When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.
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Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
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Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
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marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
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The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
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I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
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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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Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
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Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
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There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.
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