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There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
Leigh Hunt
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Leigh Hunt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1784
Born: October 19
Died: 1859
Died: August 28
Autobiographer
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Southgate
London
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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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.
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With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
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Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.
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Patience and gentleness is power.
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A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
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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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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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Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.
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The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
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I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
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Danger for danger's sake is senseless.
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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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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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