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There was a little man, and he had a little soul And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
Charles Lamb
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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
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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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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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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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O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
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Mother's love grows by giving.
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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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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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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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I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
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