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There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

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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
Hair
Dead
Though
Seems
Life

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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 author is like a baker it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.
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Write me as one who loves his fellow men.
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Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose, Who shall tell what brightest thought Out of darkness grows? Who, through what funereal pain, Souls to love and peace attain? - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt
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Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?
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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
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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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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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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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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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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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For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
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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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A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
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Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.
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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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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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The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!
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