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Nothing but love can answer to love no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.
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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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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Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
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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 old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
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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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How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
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The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
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Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.
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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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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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It is said that ridicule is the test of truth but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer 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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I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.
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There is a large stock on hand but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
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The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
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