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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.
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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there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy.
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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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Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
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... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
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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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though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.
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It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.
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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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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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We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
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the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
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Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
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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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The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
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Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.
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marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
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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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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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