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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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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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Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.
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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
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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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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
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This garden has a soul, I know its moods.
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A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word effrontery comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.
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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 last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.
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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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The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.
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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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Fishes do not roar they cannot express any sound of suffering and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.
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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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With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
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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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The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
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The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
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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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Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?
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