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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.

Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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Poet
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London
England
Life
Theory
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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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A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
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Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
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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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Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
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No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
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Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?
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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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While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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You may derive thoughts from others your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
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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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