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• By myself walking, To myself talking.

  Charles Lamb

  Talking, Walking

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1836). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb. [With Six Poems by Mary Lamb.] A New Edition”, p.28

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• We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies.

  Charles Lamb

  Vision, Tragedy, Rays

  Charles Lamb (1838). “Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H”, p.298

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• The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

  Charles Lamb

  Silence, Dumb, Apollo

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon TALFOURD (1849). “The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. By T. N. Talfourd”, p.264

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• New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

  Charles Lamb

  Birthday, New Year, Holiday

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• This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.

  Charles Lamb

  Understanding, Mind, Topics

  Charles Lamb (1864). “Eliana: Being the Hitherto Uncollected Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.25

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• A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.

  Charles Lamb

  Brother, Book, Doe

  "Last Essays of Elia". Book by Charles Lamb, 1833.

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• If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!

  Charles Lamb

  Hands, Dirt, Trump

  In Leigh Hunt 'Lord Byron and his Contemporaries' (1828) p. 299

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• Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.

  Charles Lamb

  Knowing, Feelings, Attention

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People'

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• I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.

  Charles Lamb

  Sweet, Children, Kind

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People'

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• For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

  Charles Lamb

  Smoking, Sake, Tobacco

  'A Farewell to Tobacco' l. 122

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• Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?

  Charles Lamb

  Queens, Book, Reading

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• Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Thinking, I Can Read

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• A babe is fed with milk and praise.

  Charles Lamb

  Childhood, Milk, Praise

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.292

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• In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

  Charles Lamb

  Dresses, Female, Poverty

  Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.154

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• I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

  Charles Lamb

  Tombstone, Ordinary, Disgusting

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• Surely it is a matter of joy, that your faith in Jesus has been preserved; the Comforter that should relieve you is not far from you. But as you are a Christian, in the name of that Saviour, who was filled with bitterness and made druken with wormwood, I conjre you to have recourse in frequent prayer to 'his God and your God,' the God of mercies, and father of all comfort. Your poor father is, I hope, almost senseless of the calamity; the unconscious instrument of Divine Providence knows it not, and your mother is in heaven.

  Charles Lamb

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1935). “The Letters of Charles Lamb: To which are Added Those of His Sister, Mary Lamb. Edited by E.V. Lucas”

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• A laxity pervades the popular use of words.

  Charles Lamb

  Use

  Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

  Charles Lamb

  Thanksgiving, Gluttony, Occasions

  Charles Lamb (1867). “The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia”, p.125

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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!

  Charles Lamb

  Bravery, Might, Tongue

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• Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!

  Charles Lamb

  Waiting, Remember, Glory

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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.

  Charles Lamb

  Zion, Voice, Cheerful

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1838). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb”, p.70

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• In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

  Charles Lamb

  Science, World, Behinds

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale”, p.53

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• A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.

  Charles Lamb

  Family, Shadow, Pieces

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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!

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Soul, Trying

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• Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

  Charles Lamb

  Hair, Enthusiasm, Spirit

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