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I could never hate anyone I knew.
— Charles Lamb
Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.
— Charles Lamb
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
— Charles Lamb
Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
— Charles Lamb
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.
— Charles Lamb
When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?
— Charles Lamb
I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
— Charles Lamb
You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
— Charles Lamb
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
— Charles Lamb
Time partially reconciles us to anything.
— Charles Lamb
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.
— Charles Lamb
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
— Charles Lamb
All people have their blind side-their superstitions.
— Charles Lamb
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
— Charles Lamb
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
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
— Charles Lamb
To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
— Charles Lamb
Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?
— Charles Lamb
You look wise, pray correct that error.
— Charles Lamb
Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.
— Charles Lamb
No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
— Charles Lamb
What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.
— Charles Lamb
We encourage one another in mediocrity.
— Charles Lamb
The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.
— Charles Lamb
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
— Charles Lamb
I have something more to do than to feel.
— Charles Lamb
A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.
— Charles Lamb
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
— Charles Lamb
I ask and wish not to appearMore beauteous, rich or gay:
Lord, make me wiser every year,
And better every day. — Charles Lamb
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
Trample not on the ruins of a man.
— Charles Lamb
(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.
— Charles Lamb
Half as sober as a judge.
— Charles Lamb
Man is a gaming animal.
— Charles Lamb
There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
— Charles Lamb
Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps - good works.
— Charles Lamb
And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
— Charles Lamb
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
— Charles Lamb
There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
— Charles Lamb
Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.
— Charles Lamb
I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.
— Charles Lamb
Just as I am, without one plea But that Thy blood was shed for me, And that thou bidd'st me come to Thee, O Lamb of God, I come!
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
— Charles Lamb
An album is a garden, not for showPlanted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow. — Charles Lamb
The world meets nobody half way.
— Charles Lamb
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
— Charles Lamb
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
A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
— Charles Lamb
It is good to love the unknown.
— Charles Lamb
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
— Charles Lamb
English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
— Charles Lamb
Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.
— Charles Lamb
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
— Charles Lamb
Presents, I often say, endear absents.
— Charles Lamb
Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
— Charles Lamb
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.
— Charles Lamb
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
— Charles Lamb
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
— Charles Lamb
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
— Charles Lamb
If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
— Charles Lamb
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
— Charles Lamb
Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.
— Charles Lamb
For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
— Charles Lamb
The vices of some men are magnificent.
— Charles Lamb
Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
— Charles Lamb
My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.
— Charles Farrar Browne
And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
— Charles Lamb
There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.
— Charles Lamb
Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?
— Charles Lamb
By myself walking, To myself talking.
— Charles Lamb
Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur & wildness of Fancy, till you have gone mad.
— Charles Lamb
Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
— Charles Lamb
Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid
— Charles Lamb
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
— Charles Lamb
Not if I know myself at all.
— Charles Lamb
Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
— Charles Lamb
I am in love with the green earth.
— Charles Lamb
In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
— Charles Lamb
I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.
— Charles Lamb
For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
— Charles Lamb
We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
— Charles Lamb
I cannot sit and think; books think for me.
— Charles Lamb