Breathe Quote by Charles Lamb

“Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

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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.

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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.

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Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.

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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.

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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

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

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My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

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