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Leigh Hunt quotes: The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

Leigh Hunt quotes: This garden has a soul, I know its moods.

This garden has a soul, I know its moods.

Leigh Hunt quotes: Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

Leigh Hunt quotes: Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

Leigh Hunt quotes: The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

Leigh Hunt quotes: Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

Leigh Hunt quotes: The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

Leigh Hunt quotes: Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

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

Leigh Hunt quotes: Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

Leigh Hunt quotes: An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.

An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.

Leigh Hunt quotes: Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

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

Leigh Hunt quotes: The beautiful attracts the beautiful.

The beautiful attracts the beautiful.

Leigh Hunt quotes: A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish.

A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish.

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

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

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

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

Leigh Hunt quotes: One can love any man that is generous.

One can love any man that is generous.

Leigh Hunt quotes: If you become a Nun, dear,The bishop Love will be;The Cupids every one, dear!Will chant-'We trust in thee!'

If you become a Nun, dear,
The bishop Love will be;
The Cupids every one, dear!
Will chant-'We trust in thee!'

Leigh Hunt quotes: Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Leigh Hunt quotes: Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

Leigh Hunt quotes: 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.

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

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

Leigh Hunt quotes: The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

Leigh Hunt quotes: May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

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

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

Leigh Hunt quotes: Colors are the smiles of nature.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Leigh Hunt quotes: If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

Leigh Hunt quotes: There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

Leigh Hunt quotes: A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

Leigh Hunt quotes: Patience and gentleness is power.

Patience and gentleness is power.

Leigh Hunt quotes: Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?

Leigh Hunt quotes: Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.

Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.

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

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

Leigh Hunt quotes: Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.

Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.

Leigh Hunt quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Leigh Hunt quotes: The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

Leigh Hunt quotes: There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

Leigh Hunt quotes: Happy opinions are the wine of the heart.

Happy opinions are the wine of the heart.

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.

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: Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.

Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.

Leigh Hunt quotes: Improvement is nature.

Improvement is nature.

Leigh Hunt quotes: The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

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

Leigh Hunt quotes: The groundwork of all happiness is health.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Leigh Hunt quotes: Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

Leigh Hunt quotes: Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Leigh Hunt quotes: There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

Leigh Hunt quotes: Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

Leigh Hunt quotes: Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Leigh Hunt quotes: Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.

Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.

Leigh Hunt quotes: Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.

Leigh Hunt quotes: Poetry is the breath of beauty.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

Leigh Hunt quotes: Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

Leigh Hunt quotes: There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

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.

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.

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: Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Leigh Hunt quotes: The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.

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

Leigh Hunt quotes: No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

Leigh Hunt quotes: I entrench myself in books equally against sorrow and the weather.

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

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

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