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Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

Leigh Hunt

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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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There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success.
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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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There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
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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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A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
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For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
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Night's deepest gloom is but a calm that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm the comfort of mankind.
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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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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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The beautiful attracts the beautiful.
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Poetry is the breath of beauty.
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A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word effrontery comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.
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The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
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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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Danger for danger's sake is senseless.
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Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
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Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?
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Improvement is nature.
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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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Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
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