Charles Lamb Quotes

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• Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it,…
• Mother's love grows by giving.
• Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
• As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul the still prayer…
• A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
• 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.…
• We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
• The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
• The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
• 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…
• Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of…
• His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.
• A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
• 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,…
• The vices of some men are magnificent.
• I am in love with this green Earth.
• Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of…
• In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
• Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?
• This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

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