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

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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
Life
Sharper
Evidence
Pain

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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me all are departed All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
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The world meets nobody half way.
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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
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I cannot sit and think books think for me.
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The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion.
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The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
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It is good to love the unknown.
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
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