Allowance Quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.” quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon — Download Open image

“The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.”

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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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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If you want to be rich, don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.

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Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that…

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In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a…

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Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat…

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You have to learn how to take an allowance.

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