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Leigh Hunt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1784
Born: October 19
Died: 1859
Died: August 28
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Southgate
London
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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Fishes do not roar they cannot express any sound of suffering and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.
Leigh Hunt
The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.
Leigh Hunt
Night's deepest gloom is but a calm that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm the comfort of mankind.
Leigh Hunt
Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.
Leigh Hunt
If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!'
Leigh Hunt
For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
Leigh Hunt
Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.
Leigh Hunt
When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
Leigh Hunt
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
Leigh Hunt
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Leigh Hunt
Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.
Leigh Hunt
I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.
Leigh Hunt
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
Leigh Hunt
Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
Leigh Hunt
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.
Leigh Hunt
I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
Leigh Hunt
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
Leigh Hunt
Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add-- Jenny kissed me!
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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
Leigh Hunt
Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.
Leigh Hunt