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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
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Southgate
London
James Henry Leigh Hunt
Improvement
Nature

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Patience and gentleness is power.
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Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.
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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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The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
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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 beautiful attracts the beautiful.
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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 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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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
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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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Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.
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For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
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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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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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When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
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