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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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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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Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.
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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.
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Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.
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... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
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I do love violets they tell the history of woman's love.
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If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.
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Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.
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All beginnings are very troublesome things.
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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
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All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
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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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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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Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
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It is strange what society will endure from its idols.
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Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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