Hunt, Leigh

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James Henry Leigh Hunt (October 19, 1784 - August 28, 1859) was an English essayist and writer. · Can we improve this biography? Post your version

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"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 enlarging monsters with a microscope."

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"Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice."

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"The groundwork of all happiness is health."

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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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"The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man."

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"The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing."

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"It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old."

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

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"Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant."

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"Colors are the smiles of nature."

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