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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

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
Beauty
Reality
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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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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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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome and that's the some on't.
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It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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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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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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The world meets nobody half way.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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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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Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
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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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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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It is good to love the unknown.
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I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
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