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There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.
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 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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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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Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public.
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Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
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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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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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I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
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All beginnings are very troublesome things.
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Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
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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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Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
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... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.
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All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
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But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
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It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.
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Sneering springs out of the wish to deny and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
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