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• Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.

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  Light, Wonderful, Visible

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.55

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• There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

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  Hair, Seems

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• The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft airs, and the flowers, and the sweet season of hay; and people will cross the fields, reading or walking with one another; and instead of the rain that soaks death into the heart of green things, will be the rain which they drink with delight; and there will be sleep on the grass at midday, and early rising in the morning, and long moonlight evenings.

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  Summer, Sweet, Morning

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• An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.

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  Sweet, Bakers, Enjoy

  Leigh Hunt (1822). “The Indicator”, p.269

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• When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils.

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  Lying, Mean, Evil

  Leigh Hunt (1851). “Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.37, Smith, Elder

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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.

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  Appreciation, Giving, Return

  Leigh Hunt (1834). “Leigh Hunt's London Journal”, p.314

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• Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.

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  Growing Up, Children, Blessed

  Leigh Hunt (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated)”, p.1782, Delphi Classics

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• Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

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  Mirth, Melancholy, Disguise

  Leigh Hunt (1859). “Leigh Hunt's Works: Selections from the English poets”

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• 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 being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.

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  Tears, Lasts, Produce

  Leigh Hunt (1853). “The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty”, p.27

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• The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.

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  Country, Cities In The World, Sky

  Leigh Hunt (1852). “Leigh Hunt's Works”, p.16

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• When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

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  Courage, Moral, Daring

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.63

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• A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.

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  Friendship, Dream, Dog

  Leigh Hunt (1835). “The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side”, p.214

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• There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

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  Wisdom, Mistake, Perspective

  Leigh Hunt (1822). “The Indicator”

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• Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.

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  Cat, Comfort

  Leigh Hunt (1840). “The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed”

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• The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

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  Attractive, Masculine, Sensible

  Leigh Hunt (1840). “The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed”, p.73

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• Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

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  Affection, Melancholy, Trifles

  Leigh Hunt, Thornton Leigh Hunt (1862). “The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt”, p.31, London : Smith, Elder

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• It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life, pleasurable, painful, or otherwise, the conduct of others, especially of those in the same house; and that, as life is made up, for the most part, not of great occasions, but of small everyday moments, it is the giving to those moments their greatest amount of peace, pleasantness, and security, that contributes most to the sum of human good. Be peaceable. Be cheerful. Be true.

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  Giving, House, Everyday

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• Improvement is nature.

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  Improvement

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.228

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• Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.

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  Nature, Eye, Animal

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• If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

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  Food, Loss, Hunting

  1851 Table- Talk,'Eating'.

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• Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

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  Sympathy, Selfish, Hunting

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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 mankind.

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  Night, Mind, Comfort

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• The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

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  Fire, Tangible, Mystery

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• Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle; so escaping from the idea of death, that, with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic nature,--may almost say, "I have a piece of thee here not unworthy of thy being now.

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  Children, Escaping, Like Love

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.145

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• Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.

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  Christmas, Heart, Heaven

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