"There is no greater mistake in the world……" — Leigh Hunt
"There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense."
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Leigh Hunt
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56 Quotes by Leigh Hunt
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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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