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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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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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London
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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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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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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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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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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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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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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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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Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
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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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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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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
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