Leigh Hunt
Leigh Hunt
James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist, poet, and writer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth19 October 1784
sorrow tears despair
Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.
men people cheerful
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
people deny
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
faces admirer anglers
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.
wisdom mistake perspective
There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
safety church rooms
The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.
beautiful
The beautiful attracts the beautiful.
friendship dream dog
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.
way lost infant
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
book satisfaction pleasure
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
sweet bakers enjoy
An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.
tired sleep past
It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labour of the day is gone
occasions
Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?
lying mean evil
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 is evils.