Leigh Hunt quotes

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. (Leigh Hunt)
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. View quote
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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 imagination. View quote
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The two divinest things this world has got, A lovely woman in a rural spot! View quote
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With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. View quote
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Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen, be your apples. View quote
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It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands. View quote
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Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook! View quote
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She dropped her glove, to prove his love, then looked at him and smiled; He bowed, and in a moment leaped among the lions wild: The leap was quick, return was quick, he has regained his place, Then threw the glove, but not with love, right in the lady's face. "By God!" said Francis, "rightly done!" and he rose from where he sat: "No love," quoth he, "but vanity, sets love a task like that." View quote
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Stolen kisses are always sweetest. View quote
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The groundwork of all happiness is health. (Leigh Hunt)
Colors are the smiles of nature. View quote
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Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. View quote
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Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears. View quote
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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. View quote
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That there is pain and evil, is no rule That I should make it greater, like a fool. View quote
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and then we wake, And hear the fruitful stream lapsing along Twixt villages, and think how we shall take Our own calm journey on for human sake. View quote
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I pray thee, then, Write me as one who loves his fellow men. View quote
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It came again with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blessed, And, lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest! View quote
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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. View quote
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Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses. (Leigh Hunt)
Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers. View quote
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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. View quote
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Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace. View quote
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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant. View quote
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