Hunt, Leigh
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Hunt, Leigh
1784-1859 British Poet Essayist
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Hunt, Leigh
Books - Reading
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
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Children
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
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Greatness
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
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Health
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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Night
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
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People
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
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Sympathy
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
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Self-denial
Colors are the smiles of nature.
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Color
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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Affection
If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
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Conversation

