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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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Write me as one who loves his fellow men.
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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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This garden has a soul, I know its moods.
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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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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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Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
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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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The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
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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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A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
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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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There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
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The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
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Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
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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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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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Night's deepest gloom is but a calm that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm the comfort of mankind.
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Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.
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