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The true poet dreams being awake.

Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
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London
England
Awake
Poet
Poetry
Dreams
True
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You may derive thoughts from others your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
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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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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
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It is good to love the unknown.
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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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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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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Half as sober as a judge.
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The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
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No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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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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