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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
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Poetry
Beauty

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Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.
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Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.
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There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
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The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.
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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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I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
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Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.
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Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
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An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks In puns of tulips and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.
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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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Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.
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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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When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
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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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