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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Evidence
Pain
Life
Sharper

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The true poet dreams being awake.
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There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.
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Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.
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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
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Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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