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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.

Charles Lamb

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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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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
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As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!
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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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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
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The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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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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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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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!
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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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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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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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