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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.

Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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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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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
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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.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
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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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I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
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