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I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
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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Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
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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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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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Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
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of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
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words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.
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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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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
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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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In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.
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From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.
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I do love violets they tell the history of woman's love.
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Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.
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A blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time, Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light, And it looks flourishing--a little while-- 'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone.
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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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One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
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Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
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anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
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