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For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

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Leigh Hunt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1784
Born: October 19
Died: 1859
Died: August 28
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James Henry Leigh Hunt
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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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Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.
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Write me as one who loves his fellow men.
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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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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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There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.
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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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Patience and gentleness is power.
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Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue her fields, green her waters vary with her skies her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.
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Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities the meeting of extremes round a corner.
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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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Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.
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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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This garden has a soul, I know its moods.
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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
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Danger for danger's sake is senseless.
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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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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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There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
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