Leigh Hunt Short Quotes

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Write me as one that loves his fellow men.

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Where the light woods go seaward from the town.

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The most intangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

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A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

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This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.

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I pray thee then,
Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.

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Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.

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I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

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

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

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

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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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Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.

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With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks
To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.

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A playful moderation in politics is just as absurd as a remonstrative whisper to a mob.

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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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Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

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Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

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The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

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Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

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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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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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If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

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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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The pretension is nothing; the performance every thing. A good apple is better than an insipid peach.

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When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

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

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The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

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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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