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Improvement is nature.

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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
Improvement
Nature

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The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.
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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 groundwork of all happiness is health.
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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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For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
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Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities the meeting of extremes round a corner.
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Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
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The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
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Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.
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Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.
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Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.
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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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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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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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There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
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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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If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
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I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
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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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With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
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