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Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

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Leigh Hunt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1784
Born: October 19
Died: 1859
Died: August 28
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Southgate
London
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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The beautiful attracts the beautiful.
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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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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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The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.
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With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
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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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A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
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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.
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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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Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.
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When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
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The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
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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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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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Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.
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Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
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