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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
Judging
Half
Sober
Judge

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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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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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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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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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It is good to love the unknown.
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A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.
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Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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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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Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
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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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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 world meets nobody half way.
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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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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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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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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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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