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• You look wise, pray correct that error.

  Charles Lamb

  Wise, Errors, Looks

  Charles Lamb (1852). “The Works of Charles Lamb”, p.341

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• We encourage one another in mediocrity.

  Charles Lamb

  Mediocrity

  Charles Lamb (1871). “Letters”, p.58

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• Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

  Charles Lamb

  New Year, Holiday, Years

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1857). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.”, p.345

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• Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth, to save a halfpenny. It is good to believe him.

  Charles Lamb

  Children, Believe, Names

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.75

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• We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

  Charles Lamb

  Hair, Long, Age

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• I ask and wish not to appear
  More beauteous, rich or gay:
  Lord, make me wiser every year,
  And better every day.

  Charles Lamb

  Prayer, Gay, Years

  Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.456, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.

  Charles Lamb

  Heart, Library, Thee

  Charles Lamb (1866). “The works of Charles Lamb”, p.51

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• When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.

  Charles Lamb

  Reading, Thinking, Walking

  Charles Lamb (1836). “Elia”, p.44

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• I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.

  Charles Lamb

  Business, Character, Men

  Charles Lamb (1884). “Little essays, sketches and characters, by C. Lamb, selected from his letters by P. Fitzgerald”

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• We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

  Charles Lamb

  Reality, Theatre, Pressure

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.156

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• Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

  Charles Lamb

  Destiny, Errands, Riddle

  Charles Lamb (1852). “The Works of Charles Lamb”, p.627

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• I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

  Charles Lamb

  Religious, Children, Father

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Philip Hamilton McMillan Memorial Publication Fund (1935). “The letters of Charles Lamb: to which are added those of his sister Mary Lamb”

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• This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.

  Charles Lamb

  Lying, Men, Shining

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• No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

  Charles Lamb

  Marriage, New Year, Years

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17

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• We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Mediocrity, Association

  Charles Lamb, Edward Verrall Lucas, Mary Lamb (1971). “The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Letters, 1796-1820”

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• Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Next, Good Work

  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.264

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• I am in love with the green earth.

  Charles Lamb

  Nature, Garden, Earth

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• Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.

  Charles Lamb

  Heaven, Feelings, Hell

  "Irish melodies". Book by Thomas Moore, part V-VIII: The Fire-Worshippers, 1815.

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• Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.

  Charles Lamb

  Opinion, Species, Property

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• No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

  Charles Lamb

  Work, Mind, Prey

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.3502, Delphi Classics

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• Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

  Charles Lamb

  Life, Success, Giving

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon TALFOURD (1849). “The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. By T. N. Talfourd”, p.253

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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.

  Charles Lamb

  Pockets, Painful, Deny

  Charles Lamb (1903). “The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Miscellaneous Prose”, p.500, Library of Alexandria

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• English physicians kill you, the French let you die.

  Charles Lamb

  Physicians, Dies

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• To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

  Charles Lamb

  Hypocrisy, Being Thankful, Add

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1857). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.”, p.390

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• The world meets nobody half way.

  Charles Lamb

  Half, World, Way

  Charles Lamb (1850). “The Essays of Elia”, p.89

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