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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
Sharper
Evidence
Pain
Life

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It is good to love the unknown.
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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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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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We are nothing less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.
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I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.
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Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
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We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
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A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.
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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.
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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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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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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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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
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