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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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  Night, Mind, Comfort

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• We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference.

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  Eye, Animal, Expression

  Leigh Hunt (1873). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.216

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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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  Acceptance, Sacrifice, Greatness

  "Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift".

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• Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion.

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  Fashion, Sacrifice

  Leigh Hunt (1873). “The Indicator, and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and the Fire-side”, p.239

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• The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!

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  Two, Lovely, World

  'The Story of Rimini' (1816) canto 3, l. 257

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• There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

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  Hair, Seems

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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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  Tears, Lasts, Produce

  Leigh Hunt (1853). “The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty”, p.27

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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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  Sweet, Bakers, Enjoy

  Leigh Hunt (1822). “The Indicator”, p.269

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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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  Believe, Book, Race

  Leigh Hunt (1849). “A Book for a Corner”, p.7

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• It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labour of the day is gone

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  Tired, Sleep, Past

  Leigh Hunt (1820). “The Indicator”, p.105

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• The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.

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  Sweet, Rivers, Lakes

  Leigh Hunt, David Jesson-Dibley (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.58, Psychology Press

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• O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary your vile days and nights? How pass your Sundays? Are ye still but joggles In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites, And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles.

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  Sunday, Night, Lakes

  Leigh Hunt (1857). “The poetical works of Leigh Hunt, revised by himself and ed. with an intr. by S.A. Lee”, p.112

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• Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.

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  Animal, People, Office

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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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  Art, Clever, Writing

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• Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.

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  Growing Up, Children, Blessed

  Leigh Hunt (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated)”, p.1782, Delphi Classics

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• Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

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  Writing, Men, Fellow Man

  "Abou Ben Adhem". Poem by Leigh Hunt. "The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt", 1846.

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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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  Sweet, Kissing, Jumping

  "Rondeau" l. 1 (1838)

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• Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?

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  Occasions

  Leigh Hunt (2016). “Leigh Hunt: Selected Writings”, p.178, Routledge

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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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  Helping Others, Sorrow, Bears

  Leigh Hunt (1853). “The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty”, p.27

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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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  Beauty, Beautiful, Medicine

  Leigh Hunt (1834). “Leigh Hunt's London Journal”, p.1

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

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  Quality, Wit And Humor, Ancient

  Leigh Hunt (1856). “Selections from the English poets”

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• No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

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  Wonder, Greater, Ifs

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.52

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• The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.

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  Hair, Grace, Incapable

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.142

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• The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft airs, and the flowers, and the sweet season of hay; and people will cross the fields, reading or walking with one another; and instead of the rain that soaks death into the heart of green things, will be the rain which they drink with delight; and there will be sleep on the grass at midday, and early rising in the morning, and long moonlight evenings.

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  Summer, Sweet, Morning

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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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  Sports, Thinking, Voice

  Leigh Hunt (1834). “Leigh Hunt's London Journal”, p.21

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