“The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.”
Source: Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift
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Famous Leigh Hunt Quotes
“Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!”
Source: The Feast of the Poets: With Other Pieces in Verse
“Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion.”
Source: The Indicator, and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and the Fire-side
Source: Leigh Hunt's Works
“Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.”
Source: The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty
“The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.”