Top 80 Leigh Hunt Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our manifest good, and ail, therefore, it is trusted, for our good concealed; – for our final and greatest good.”

— Leigh Hunt

52. “This garden has a soul, I know its moods.”

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

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54. “Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.”

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55. “A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.”

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56. “Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?”

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

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58. “Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!”

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59. “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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60. “I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.”

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61. “Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.”

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62. “Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.”

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63. “The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.”

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

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65. “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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66. “A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word “effrontery” comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.”

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67. “For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.”

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

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69. “Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without “words,” and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?”

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70. “We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still, we must consider all circumstances as secrets intrusted which would bring scandal upon another if told.”

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

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72. “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.”

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73. “We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.”

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74. “Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.”

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75. “Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain, – proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.”

— Leigh Hunt

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

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

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

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

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80. “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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81. “One can love any man that is generous.”

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

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

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84. “I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.”

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85. “Happy opinions are the wine of the heart.”

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