There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations. Leigh Hunt More Quotes by Leigh Hunt More Quotes From Leigh Hunt Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles. Leigh Hunt trifles affection melancholy To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return. Leigh Hunt return appreciation giving If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. Leigh Hunt hunting loss food Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making. Leigh Hunt christmas heart heaven One can love any man that is generous. Leigh Hunt generous generosity men Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment. Leigh Hunt enjoyment occupation busy Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples. Leigh Hunt kissing nice sweet The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain. Leigh Hunt attractive masculine sensible Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass. Leigh Hunt lazy june heart The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft airs, and the flowers, and the sweet season of hay; and people will cross the fields, reading or walking with one another; and instead of the rain that soaks death into the heart of green things, will be the rain which they drink with delight; and there will be sleep on the grass at midday, and early rising in the morning, and long moonlight evenings. Leigh Hunt summer morning sweet Danger for danger's sake is senseless. Leigh Hunt sake danger If you become a Nun, dear, Leigh Hunt cupid bishops life An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies. Leigh Hunt clever writing art 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 Leigh Hunt tired sleep past Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar. Leigh Hunt fashion beautiful beauty We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still, we must consider all circumstances as secrets intrusted which would bring scandal upon another if told. Leigh Hunt secret wish believe Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose, Who shall tell what brightest thought Out of darkness grows? Who, through what funereal pain, Souls to love and peace attain? - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt Leigh Hunt purple pain rose Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs. Leigh Hunt color break laughing The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot! Leigh Hunt lovely two world 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. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman. Leigh Hunt voice sports thinking
