Charles Lamb Quotes - Page 8

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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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• I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.

  Charles Lamb

  Heart, Giving, Poor

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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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• Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

  Charles Lamb

  Prayer, Giving Up, Book

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1903). “The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Elia and The last essays of Elia”

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• I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.

  Charles Lamb

  Garden, Poetry, Simplicity

  Charles Lamb (1858). “The letter of Charles Lamb, newly arranged: with additions; ed., with introduction and notes”, p.38

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• Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?

  Charles Lamb

  Dream, Sweet, Home

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• I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Enemy, Pun

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Charles Edmund Brock, Winifred Green, Charles Robinson (1903). “The Works of Charles Lamb”

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• Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds.

  Charles Lamb

  Cheer, Fear, Thinking

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• While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

  Charles Lamb

  Dream, Children, Wings

  Charles Lamb, Alfred Ainger, Mary Lamb (1899). “The Life and Works of Charles Lamb: In Twelve Volumes”

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• It is good to love the unknown.

  Charles Lamb

  Love

  Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.243, Cosimo, Inc.

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• An album is a garden, not for show
  Planted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow.

  Charles Lamb

  Garden, Albums, Use

  Charles Lamb (1866). “The works of Charles Lamb”, p.368

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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.

  Charles Lamb

  Beauty, Sports, Pain

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• Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the past is everything, being nothing!

  Charles Lamb

  Art, Past, Looks

  Charles Lamb (1860). “Essays of Elia”, p.23

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• Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

  Charles Lamb

  Hair, Enthusiasm, Spirit

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• A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

  Charles Lamb

  Family, Irrelevance, Poor

  'Last Essays of Elia' (1833) 'Poor Relations'

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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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• Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.

  Charles Lamb

  Pain, Night, Joy

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• Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

  Charles Lamb

  Life, Friendship, Mountain

  Charles Lamb (1855). “Letters ... with a sketch of his life”, p.154

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

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Thinking, I Can Read

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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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• 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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• Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.

  Charles Lamb

  Heart, Blades, Stains

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