Quotes by Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt

British poet, essaywriter

Alive from: 1784-1859

Category: Poets (Contemporary) | Writers (Contemporary)

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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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  Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

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  Colors are the smiles of nature.

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

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  It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

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

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

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

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