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The world meets nobody half way.

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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
Half
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World
Meets
Nobody

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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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The true poet dreams being awake.
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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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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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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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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
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If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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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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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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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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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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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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Half as sober as a judge.
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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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