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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.” quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon — Download Open image

“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.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

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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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Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

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I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

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the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste…

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There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the…

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Curiosity is its own suicide.

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Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

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Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the…

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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.

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