Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they did not last?

Letitia Landon
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  1. When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition. - Siri Hustvedt

  3. In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution. - Zadie Smith

  4. The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind. - Clare Francis

  5. Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come... - A.E. Housman

More Quotes By Letitia Landon
  1. Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

  2. There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

  3. Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they did not last?

  4. No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

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