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First Quotes by Charles Lamb
- 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,…
- 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.…
- Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood?…
- 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,…
- Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the…
- Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first…
- If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung.
- What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their…
- No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
- Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.
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