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

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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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Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.
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Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.
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Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
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Poetry is the breath of beauty.
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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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The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!
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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
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I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
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A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word effrontery comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.
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Patience and gentleness is power.
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The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.
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Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue her fields, green her waters vary with her skies her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.
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There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success.
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An author is like a baker it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.
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Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate others, because we are humane many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.
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