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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
Opinions
Species
Property
Opinion
Always
Desirous
Sharing

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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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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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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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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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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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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
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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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It is good to love the unknown.
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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.
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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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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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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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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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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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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
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