Letitia Landon Quotes
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There is in life no blessing like affection; it soothes, it hallows, elevates, subdues, and bringeth down to earth its native heaven: life has nought else that may supply its place.
[Affection]
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Time is the great comforter of grief, but the agency by which it works is exhaustion.
[Grief]
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We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.
[Music]
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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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We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
[Suffering]
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We speak of hope; but is not hope only a more gentle name for fear.
[Hope]
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Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?
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What mockeries are our most firm resolves. - To will is ours, but not to execute. We map our future like some unknown coast, and say here is a harbor, there a rock; the one we will attain, the other shun, and we do neither; some chance gale springs up, and bears us far o'er some unfathomed sea.
[Providence]
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Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
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Who can confess his poverty and look it in the face, destroys its sting: but a proud poor man, he is poor, indeed.
[Poverty]
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