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Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.

Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Jobs, Memories, Past
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.198

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 Elizabeth Landon
Memories, Flower, Past
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Past, Repentance, Janus
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.39

The past is perpetual youth to the heart.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Heart, Past, Youth
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”

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