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Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.
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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The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
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Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate others, because we are humane many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.
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The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!
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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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This garden has a soul, I know its moods.
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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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If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
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Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
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Improvement is nature.
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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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There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.
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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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Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
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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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The beautiful attracts the beautiful.
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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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A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
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The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
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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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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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