Charles Lamb Quotes - Page 11

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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 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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• 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.

  Charles Lamb

  Kings, Boys, Law

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.885, Delphi Classics

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

  Charles Lamb

  Birthday, New Year, Holiday

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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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• Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

  Charles Lamb

  Christmas, Thank You, Gratitude

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale”, p.288

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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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• The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

  Charles Lamb

  Fear, Color, Beggar

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• Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

  Charles Lamb

  Laughing, Funeral, Awful

  Letter to Robert Southey, 9 August 1815, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 3 (1978) p. 181

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• Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.

  Charles Lamb

  Simplicity

  Letter to S. T. Coleridge, 8 November 1796, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 1 (1975) p. 60

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• What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance.

  Charles Lamb

  Christian, Business, Communication

  Charles Lamb (1943). “A complete Elia: The essays of Elia, together with The last essays of Elia”

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• O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!

  Charles Lamb

  Money, Liberty, Pockets

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon TALFOURD (1850). “Final Memorials of Charles Lamb; consisting chiefly of his Letters not before published, with sketches of some of his companions. By T. N. Talfourd”, p.134

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• A flow'ret crushed in the bud,
  A nameless piece of Babyhood,
  Was in her cradle-coffin lying;
  Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying

  Charles Lamb

  Lying, Dying, Coffins

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1838). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb”, p.182

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• Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

  Charles Lamb

  Observation, Truism, Commonplace

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

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• Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

  Charles Lamb

  Animal, Cages, Wild Animal

  Charles Lamb (1838). “Last essays of Elia”, p.93

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• We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.

  Charles Lamb

  Dream, Might, Lethe

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.113

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