Leigh Hunt Quotes

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• To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.
• This garden has a soul, I know its moods.
• Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root,…
• Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.
• 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…
• There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.
• The beautiful attracts the beautiful.
• Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
• Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much…
• It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision,…
• Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
• Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
• A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
• 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…
• I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
• Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.
• With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
• Patience and gentleness is power.
• Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
• The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

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