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Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.

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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
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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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When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
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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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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 same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
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If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.
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Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?
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I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
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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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The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.
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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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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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There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
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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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Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities the meeting of extremes round a corner.
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The groundwork of all happiness is health.
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O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary your vile days and nights? How pass your Sundays? Are ye still but joggles In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites, And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles.
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Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
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A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word effrontery comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.
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