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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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It is good to love the unknown.
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Mother's love grows by giving.
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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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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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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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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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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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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
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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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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.
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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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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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There was a little man, and he had a little soul And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
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The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
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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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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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