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Poetry is the breath of beauty.

Leigh Hunt

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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
Breaths
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Beauty
Breath

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If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!'
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There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success.
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Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.
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Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.
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The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
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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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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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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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When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
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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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If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
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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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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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Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.
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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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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
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A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
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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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There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
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I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
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