It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life, pleasurable, painful, or otherwise, the conduct of others, especially… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook! — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
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… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
