Leigh Hunt

(536 votes)   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
1784-1859, British Poet, Essayist

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(130 votes)   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.

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(114 votes)   Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

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(72 votes)   The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

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(69 votes)   Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

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

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(68 votes)   The groundwork of all happiness is health.

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

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(63 votes)   If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

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(62 votes)   If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

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(62 votes)   It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

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(60 votes)   Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

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(58 votes)   Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

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(58 votes)   The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

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(57 votes)   Colors are the smiles of nature.

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