Leigh Hunt Quotes
For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.
Citations
Hunt, Leigh. The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty. John Chapman, 1853, p. 17.
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James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet.