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I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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London
England
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Tasks
Worked
Rest
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Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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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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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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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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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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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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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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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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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
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The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
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