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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
Sharper
Evidence
Pain
Life

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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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And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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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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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
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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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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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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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'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.
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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 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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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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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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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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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 measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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