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Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Leigh Hunt

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Leigh Hunt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1784
Born: October 19
Died: 1859
Died: August 28
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Translator
Southgate
London
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!
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Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities the meeting of extremes round a corner.
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Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.
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Patience and gentleness is power.
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Night's deepest gloom is but a calm that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm the comfort of mankind.
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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
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Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.
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Improvement is nature.
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Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
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Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.
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Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.
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Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
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Poetry is the breath of beauty.
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Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.
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The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.
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Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose, Who shall tell what brightest thought Out of darkness grows? Who, through what funereal pain, Souls to love and peace attain? - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt
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God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.
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O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary your vile days and nights? How pass your Sundays? Are ye still but joggles In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites, And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles.
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The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.
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