The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. Leigh Hunt More Quotes by Leigh Hunt More Quotes From Leigh Hunt Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty. Leigh Hunt eyelittleslaughing Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look, which is not common. The stag or antelope eye of the Orientals is beautiful and lamping, but is accused of looking skittish and indifferent. "The epithet of 'stag-eyed,'" says Lady Wortley Montgu, speaking of a Turkish love-song, "pleases me extremely; and I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress' eye. Leigh Hunt eyesongbeautiful Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate. Leigh Hunt racebelievebook Improvement is nature. Leigh Hunt improvement Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers. Leigh Hunt There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination. Leigh Hunt measurefeelimaginationworld It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. Leigh Hunt oldteachsatisfactionyoung If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating. Leigh Hunt yousupporteatingconversation Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. Leigh Hunt womangreatselfhistory
