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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
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Southgate
London
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
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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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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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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.
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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
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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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Danger for danger's sake is senseless.
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Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.
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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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Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.
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If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
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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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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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For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
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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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The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every day moments of existence. In a particular and attaching sense, they are those that can partake our pleasures and our pains in the liveliest and most devoted manner. Beauty is little without this with it she is triumphant.
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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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The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
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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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Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.
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