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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

Leigh Hunt

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Leigh Hunt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1784
Born: October 19
Died: 1859
Died: August 28
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Literary Critic
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Southgate
London
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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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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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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Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
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Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
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There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
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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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There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
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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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An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks In puns of tulips and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.
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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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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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For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
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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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With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
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The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
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Write me as one who loves his fellow men.
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This garden has a soul, I know its moods.
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I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
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If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!'
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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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