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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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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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Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
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Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.
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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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The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.
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The groundwork of all happiness is health.
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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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Write me as one who loves his fellow men.
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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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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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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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With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
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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 two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!
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Improvement is nature.
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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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I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
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A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
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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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For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
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