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By myself walking, To myself talking.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Walking
Talking

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Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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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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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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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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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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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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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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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!
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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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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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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 Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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