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There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
Leigh Hunt
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Leigh Hunt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1784
Born: October 19
Died: 1859
Died: August 28
Autobiographer
Journalist
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Southgate
London
James Henry Leigh Hunt
Hair
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Though
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Life
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The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.
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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
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I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
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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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The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.
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Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.
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The beautiful attracts the beautiful.
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For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
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Poetry is the breath of beauty.
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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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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 last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.
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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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Fishes do not roar they cannot express any sound of suffering and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.
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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
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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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Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
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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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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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The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
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