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The groundwork of all happiness is health.

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Leigh Hunt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1784
Born: October 19
Died: 1859
Died: August 28
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
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Southgate
London
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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Poetry is the breath of beauty.
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If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.
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There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
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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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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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Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
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Danger for danger's sake is senseless.
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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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The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.
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Patience and gentleness is power.
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There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.
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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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There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
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Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?
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Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful not the graceful, but the fantastic not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar.
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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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