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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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There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
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May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.
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A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.
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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.
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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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A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
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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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Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.
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The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.
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When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden is evils.
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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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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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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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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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We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.
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The pretension is nothing; the performance every thing. A good apple is better than an insipid peach.
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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.
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Rossini, in music, is the genius of sheer animal spirits. It is a species as inferior to that of Mozart, as the cleverness of a smart boy is to that of a man of sentiment; but it is genius nevertheless.
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With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks
To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
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Even in envy may be discerned something of an instinct of justice, something of a wish to see universal fair-play, and things on a level.
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Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.
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Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
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Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
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Born:
October 19, 1784
Died:
August 28, 1859
(aged 74)
Bio:
James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist, poet, and writer.
Known for:
The Story of Rimini (1815)
The Autobiography Of Leigh Hunt
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