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The beautiful attracts the beautiful.
Leigh Hunt
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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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A dog can have a friend he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates he offends, and is pardoned he stands by you in adversity he is a good fellow.
Leigh Hunt
The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
Leigh Hunt
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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This garden has a soul, I know its moods.
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Poetry is the breath of beauty.
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Improvement is nature.
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Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities the meeting of extremes round a corner.
Leigh Hunt
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.
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!
Leigh Hunt
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
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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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Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
Leigh Hunt
Write me as one who loves his fellow men.
Leigh Hunt
Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
Leigh Hunt
A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish.
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
The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.
Leigh Hunt
With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
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
Patience and gentleness is power.
Leigh Hunt