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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.
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His forehead was prodigious—a great piece of placid marble; and his fine eyes, in which all the activity of his mind seemed to concentrate, moved under it with a sprightly ease, as if it was pastime to them to carry all that thought.
Of coleridge
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Where the light woods go seaward from the town.
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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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Write me as one that loves his fellow men.
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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.
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To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.
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There are two worlds; the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imaginations. To be sensible of the truth of only one of these, is to know the truth but by halves.
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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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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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