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I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

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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Milton
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This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.
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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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A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
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A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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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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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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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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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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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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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.
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It is good to love the unknown.
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Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
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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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When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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