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Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all. — 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

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

You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! — Charles Lamb

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. — Charles Lamb

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. — 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

and write as a boy and he — Charles Lamb

All people have their blind side-their superstitions. — 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

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them. — Charles Lamb

What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank. — Charles Lamb

I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings. — 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

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. — Charles Lamb

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

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. — Charles Lamb

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. — Charles Lamb

I ask and wish not to appear
More beauteous, rich or gay:
Lord, make me wiser every year,
And better every day. — Charles Lamb

Trample not on the ruins of a man. — Charles Lamb

Half as sober as a judge. — Charles Lamb

Man is a gaming animal. — 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

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

The vices of some men are magnificent. — Charles Lamb

Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur & wildness of Fancy, till you have gone mad. — Charles Lamb

Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded. — Charles Lamb

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down ... To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? ... Sabbathless Satan! — Charles Lamb

Not if I know myself at all. — Charles Lamb

New Year's Day is every man's birthday. — Charles Lamb

As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances! — 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

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it. — Charles Lamb

We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey
somehow as we are shy of poor relations. — Charles Lamb

I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue. — Charles Lamb

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

The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever. — Charles Lamb

Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book. — Charles Lamb

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. — Charles Lamb

Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved. — Charles Lamb

English physicians kill you, the French let you die. — Charles Lamb

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen. — Charles Lamb

It is good to love the unknown. — 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

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door. — Charles Lamb

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

By myself walking, To myself talking. — 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

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

A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature. — 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

I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus. — Charles Lamb

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. — Charles Lamb

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

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

If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold! — Charles Lamb