"Oh for a seat in some poetic nook,……" — Leigh Hunt
"Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!"
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Leigh Hunt
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56 Quotes by Leigh Hunt
Leigh Hunt has 56 quotes on this site.
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To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is…
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This garden has a soul, I know its moods.
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Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take…
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Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of…
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Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects;…
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There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with…
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The beautiful attracts the beautiful.
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Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
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Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their…
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It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and…
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Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
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Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
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More Brook Quotes
This quote is filed under Brook Quotes,
one of 87 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.
— George Bird Grinnell
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Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
— William Arthur Ward
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These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest,…
— William Shakespeare
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Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
— William Shakespeare
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By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.
— Opal Whiteley
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The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
— Wallace Stegner
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The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge…
— James Lane Allen
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Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.
— Gautama Buddha
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To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or…
— Herbert Hoover
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