Charles Lamb Quotes - Page 8

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• 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 of devotion, Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee. As still to the star of its worship, though clouded, The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea, So dark when I roam in this wintry world shrouded, The hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee.

  Charles Lamb

  Sweet, Stars, Prayer

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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.

  Charles Lamb

  Beauty, Sports, Pain

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• The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion.

  Charles Lamb

  Zion, Voice, Cheerful

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1838). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb”, p.70

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• 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

  Pain, Night, Joy

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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

  Years, Heaven, Spheres

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• Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.

  Charles Lamb

  Silence, Gone, Silent

  'Hester' (1803) st. 7

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• He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

  Charles Lamb

  Society, Ornaments, Might

  Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.340

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• In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Demand, Binding

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1860). “The essays of Elia”, p.207

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• When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

  Charles Lamb

  Children, Pride, People

  Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.133

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• Men marry for fortune, and sometimes to please their fancy; but, much oftener than is suspected, they consider what the world will say of it--how such a woman in their friends' eyes will look at the head of a table. Hence we see so many insipid beauties made wives of, that could not have struck the particular fancy of any man that had any fancy at all.

  Charles Lamb

  Eye, Men, Wife

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1913). “Miscellaneous prose (1798-1834)”

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• Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?

  Charles Lamb

  Queens, Book, Reading

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• Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!

  Charles Lamb

  Dream, Mad, Gone

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.1959, Delphi Classics

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• I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.

  Charles Lamb

  Heart, Giving, Poor

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• Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Eye, Modern Novel

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H”, p.192

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• I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

  Charles Lamb

  Believe, Writing, Men

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1856). “The Life and Letters”, p.53

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• 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

  Dream, Sweet, Home

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• Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.

  Charles Lamb

  Reading, Needs, Ears

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.192

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• A laxity pervades the popular use of words.

  Charles Lamb

  Use

  Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Charles Lamb

  Sleep, Names, Shade

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• Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the past is everything, being nothing!

  Charles Lamb

  Art, Past, Looks

  Charles Lamb (1860). “Essays of Elia”, p.23

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• Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.

  Charles Lamb

  Daughter, Farewell, Dark

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• Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!

  Charles Lamb

  Waiting, Remember, Glory

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• Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Childhood, Fragility

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H”, p.42

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• Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

  Charles Lamb

  Charity, Purses, Philanthropy

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.138

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• All people have their blind side-their superstitions.

  Charles Lamb

  People, Superstitions, Sides

  Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.32

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