Leigh Hunt
Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our manifest good, and ail, therefore, it is trusted, for our good concealed;--for our final and greatest good.Collection: Loss
Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.Collection: Sea
I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.Collection: Book
A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.Collection: 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.Collection: 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.Collection: Animal
With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.Collection: Lying