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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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The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
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Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?
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I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
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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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Patience and gentleness is power.
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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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Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.
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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.
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The groundwork of all happiness is health.
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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.
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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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Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.
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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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Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
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If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!'
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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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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.
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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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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.
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To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.
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