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... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
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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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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We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
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But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
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Farewell's a bitter word to say.
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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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Shopping, true feminine felicity!
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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.
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sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.
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Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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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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marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
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Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
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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 have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
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Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
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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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It is strange what society will endure from its idols.
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the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
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