Leigh Hunt quotes

Leigh Hunt was an English poet, critic, and essayist associated with the Romantic movement. His work contributed significantly to the literary culture of his time, and he was a friend of many famous writers, including Keats and Shelley. He influenced English literature through his writing and editorial leadership. Here are 28 of his quotes:

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

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There are two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imagination.

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The two divinest things this world has got, A lovely woman in a rural spot!

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

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Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

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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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Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

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She dropped her glove, to prove his love, then looked at him and smiled; He bowed, and in a moment leaped among the lions wild: The leap was quick, return was quick, he has regained his place, Then threw the glove, but not with love, right in the lady's face. "By God!" said Francis, "rightly done!" and he rose from where he sat: "No love," quoth he, "but vanity, sets love a task like that."

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Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

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Colors are the smiles of nature.

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Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

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

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

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That there is pain and evil, is no rule That I should make it greater, like a fool.

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and then we wake, And hear the fruitful stream lapsing along Twixt villages, and think how we shall take Our own calm journey on for human sake.

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I pray thee, then, Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

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It came again with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blessed, And, lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest!

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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.

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Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

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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.

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Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.

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

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