Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook! Leigh Hunt More Quotes by Leigh Hunt More Quotes From Leigh Hunt A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain. Leigh Hunt exquisite pleasure pain 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. Leigh Hunt egypt vision dream Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office. Leigh Hunt office animal people 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. Leigh Hunt telescopes monsters love Write me as one who loves his fellow men. Leigh Hunt fellow-man writing men Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant. Leigh Hunt lost children way The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius. Leigh Hunt genius perfection life-is 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. Leigh Hunt evil mean lying 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. Leigh Hunt delight noise water This garden has a soul, I know its moods. Leigh Hunt mood garden soul Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair. Leigh Hunt despair tears sorrow If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now. Leigh Hunt inquiry cheerful littles Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. Leigh Hunt sacrifice fashion The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. Leigh Hunt deny people 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 anglers admirer faces There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense. Leigh Hunt perspective wisdom mistake The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there. Leigh Hunt safety church rooms Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind. Leigh Hunt comfort mind night 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. Leigh Hunt nature eye animal We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference. Leigh Hunt eye expression animal
