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> [We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/we-really-cannot-see-what-equanimity-there-is-in-jerking-a-lacerated/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f78/leigh-hunt-4374_anglers_we-really-cannot-see-what-equanimity-the_2474830.png)

> [A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/a-friend-of-ours-who-is-an-admirer-of-isaac-walton-was-struck-just-as/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

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> [Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/anglers-boast-of-the-innocence-of-their-pastime-yet-it-puts-fellow/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

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> [Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/fishes-do-not-roar-they-cannot-express-any-sound-of-suffering-and/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

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## More by Leigh Hunt

> [Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/oh-for-a-seat-in-some-poetic-nook-just-hid-with-trees-and-sparkling/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

> [The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/the-most-tangible-of-all-visible-mysteries-fire/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

> [Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/jenny-kissed-me-when-we-met-jumping-from-the-chair-she-sat-in-time/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

> [With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/with-spots-of-sunny-openings-and-with-nooks-to-lie-and-read-in/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

> [Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/light-is-perhaps-the-most-wonderful-of-all-visible-things/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

> [Stolen kisses are always sweetest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/stolen-kisses-are-always-sweetest/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

> [We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/we-are-violets-blue-for-our-sweetness-found-careless-in-the-mossy/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

> [If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/if-you-are-melancholy-for-the-first-time-you-will-find-upon-a-little/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

> [Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/affection-like-melancholy-magnifies-trifles-but-the-magnifying-of-the/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

> [The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/the-person-who-can-be-only-serious-or-only-cheerful-is-but-half-a-man/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

> [Write me as one who loves his fellow men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/write-me-as-one-who-loves-his-fellow-men/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

> [Danger for danger's sake is senseless.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/danger-for-danger-s-sake-is-senseless/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

> [The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/the-only-place-a-new-hat-can-be-carried-into-with-safety-is-a-church/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

> [There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/there-seems-a-life-in-hair-though-it-be-dead/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

> [Happy opinions are the wine of the heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/happy-opinions-are-the-wine-of-the-heart/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

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