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A mere gossiping entertainment: a few child's squalls, a few mumbled amens, and a few mumbled cakes, and a few smirks accompanied by a few fees.
On the christening of his godson
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Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.
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There lived a knight, when knighthood was in flow'r, Who charmed alike the tilt-yard and the bower.
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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.
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Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.
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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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This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.
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I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
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And showed the names whom love of God had bless'd, And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.
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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.
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If you become a Nun, dear,
The bishop Love will be;
The Cupids every one, dear!
Will chant-'We trust in thee!'
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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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Poetry, in the most comprehensive application of the term, I take to be the flower of any kind of experience, rooted in truth, and issuing forth into beauty.
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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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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."
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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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A playful moderation in politics is just as absurd as a remonstrative whisper to a mob.
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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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The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
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Never lay yourself open to what is called conviction: you might as well open your waist-coat to receive a knock-down blow.
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I pray thee then,
Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.
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The two divinest things this world has got,
A lovely woman in a rural spot!
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The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.
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Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold,
And to the presence in the room he said,
'What writest thou?'—The vision raised its head,
And with a look made of all sweet accord,
Answered, 'The names of those who love the Lord.'
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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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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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