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Leigh Hunt Quotes

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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  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness. It was not any particular talent that attracted me to him, or I anything striking whatsoever. I should say in one word, it was his goodness  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) 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  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen, be your apples  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) 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 labor of the day is gone  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) Your second hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) 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  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks to lie and read in, sloping into brooks  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) 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  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) Table talk, to be perfect, should be sincere without bigotry, differing without discord, sometimes grave, always agreeable, touching on deep points, dwelling most on seasonable ones, and letting everybody speak and be heard  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still, we must consider all circumstances as secrets intrusted which would bring scandal upon another if told  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes, the vulgar  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) He (Charles Lamb) had felt, thought, and suffered so much that he literally had intolerance for nothing  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) Leaves seem light and useless, and idle and wavering, and changeable - they even dance; yet God has made them part of the oak. In so doing, he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) 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?  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) 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  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) 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  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) 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  (Leigh Hunt Quotes) We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has not the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching shrieking fish  (Leigh Hunt Quotes)
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