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The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.

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Leigh Hunt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1784
Born: October 19
Died: 1859
Died: August 28
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Translator
Southgate
London
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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Loveliest
Incapable
Hair
Grace
Nothing

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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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Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.
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I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
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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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With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
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Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?
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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 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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Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
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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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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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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 same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
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