Leigh Hunt Quotes - Page 4

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• A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

  Leigh Hunt

  Pain, Pleasure, Exquisite

  Letter to Alexander Ireland, 2 June 1848, on receiving 'a glorious batch of 'Examiners", in 'The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt' (1862) vol. 2, p. 122

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• An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.

  Leigh Hunt

  Art, Clever, Writing

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• Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

  Leigh Hunt

  Writing, Men, Fellow Man

  "Abou Ben Adhem". Poem by Leigh Hunt. "The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt", 1846.

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• Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add-- Jenny kissed me!

  Leigh Hunt

  Sweet, Kissing, Jumping

  "Rondeau" l. 1 (1838)

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• Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sports, Thinking, Voice

  Leigh Hunt (1834). “Leigh Hunt's London Journal”, p.21

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• There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted; yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Medicine

  Leigh Hunt (1834). “Leigh Hunt's London Journal”, p.1

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• Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

  Leigh Hunt

  Helping Others, Sorrow, Bears

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

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• For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

  Leigh Hunt

  Quality, Wit And Humor, Ancient

  Leigh Hunt (1856). “Selections from the English poets”

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• No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

  Leigh Hunt

  Wonder, Greater, Ifs

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.52

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• Table talk, to be perfect, should be sincere without bigotry, differing without discord, sometimes grave, always agreeable, touching on deep points, dwelling most on seasonable ones, and letting everybody speak and be heard.

  Leigh Hunt

  Dwelling, Perfect, Touching

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.2

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• Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sake, Danger

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.90

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• Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.

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  Heart, June, Lazy

  James Henry Leigh Hunt, “To The Grasshopper And The Cricket”

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• If you become a Nun, dear,
  The bishop Love will be;
  The Cupids every one, dear!
  Will chant-'We trust in thee!'

  Leigh Hunt

  Life, Bishops, Cupid

  Leigh Hunt (1923). “The poetical works of Leigh Hunt”

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• A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish.

  Leigh Hunt

  Faces, Admirer, Anglers

  Leigh Hunt (1841). “Essays”, p.14

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• This garden has a soul, I know its moods.

  Leigh Hunt

  Garden, Soul, Mood

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• 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, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands.

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  Dream, Egypt, Vision

  Leigh Hunt, David Jesson-Dibley (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.48, Psychology Press

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• I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

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  Book, Reading, Weather

  Leigh Hunt (1835). “The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side”, p.183

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• With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.

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  Lying, Sunny, Spots

  Leigh Hunt (2016). “Leigh Hunt: Selected Writings”, p.40, Routledge

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• The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

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  Safety, Church, Rooms

  Leigh Hunt (1822). “The Indicator”, p.170

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• We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.

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  Water, Noise, Delight

  Leigh Hunt (1822). “The Indicator”, p.270

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• We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still, we must consider all circumstances as secrets intrusted which would bring scandal upon another if told.

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  Believe, Secret, Wish

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• 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 our breath and blueness is.

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  Kissing, Blue, Shade

  Leigh Hunt (1860). “The poetical works of Leigh Hunt”, p.290

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• Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

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  Wit, Clash, Meetings

  Leigh Hunt (1856). “Leigh Hunt's Works”

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• Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Leigh Hunt (1859). “Works”, p.38

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• Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our manifest good, and ail, therefore, it is trusted, for our good concealed;--for our final and greatest good.

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  Loss, Sorrow, Tears

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