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Charles Lamb Quotes

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it Picture Quote #1

Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart Picture Quote #1

For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print Picture Quote #1

Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question Picture Quote #1

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life Picture Quote #1

Nursed amid her noise, her crowds, her beloved smoke, what have I been doing all my life, if I have not lent out my heart with usury to such scenes? Picture Quote #1

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A good-natured woman... which is as much as you can expect from a friend's wife, whom you got acquainted with a bachelor Picture Quote #1

This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized Picture Quote #1

I am determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is Picture Quote #1

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! Picture Quote #1

Riddle of destiny, who can show what thy short visit meant, or know what thy errand here below? Picture Quote #1

Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites. For my part, I do not care a farthing candle For either of them, nor for Handel Picture Quote #1

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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat? Picture Quote #1

The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling-a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy Picture Quote #1

I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves the very marrow of tradition 's shown; and all that history, much that fiction weaves Picture Quote #1

For I hate, yet love thee, so, that, whichever thing I show, the plain truth will seem to be a constrained hyperbole, and the passion to proceed more from a mistress than a weed Picture Quote #1

Thou in such a cloud dost bind us, That our worst foes cannot find us, and ill fortune, that would thwart us, Shoots at rovers, shooting at us; While each man, through thy height'ning steam, Does like a smoking Etna seem Picture Quote #1

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord Picture Quote #1

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Your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes Picture Quote #1

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair Picture Quote #1

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door Picture Quote #1

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it Picture Quote #1

A presentation copy... Is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return Picture Quote #1

From a poor man, poor in time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in time for me Picture Quote #1

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Each day used to be individually felt by me in its reference to the foreign post days; in its distance from, or propinquity to, the next Sunday. I had my Wednesday feelings, my Saturday nights' sensations Picture Quote #1

Sunday itself-that unfortunate failure of a holyday as it too often proved, what with my sense of its fugitiveness, and over-care to get the greatest quantity of pleasure out of it … Picture Quote #1

A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition Picture Quote #1

Many are the sayings of Elia... Scattered about in obscure periodicals and forgotten miscellanies. From the dust of some of these it is our intention occasionally to revive a tract or two that shall seem worthy of a better fate.... Seeing that Messieurs the Quarterly Reviewers have chosen to embellish their last dry pages with fruitful quotations therefrom Picture Quote #1

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A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it (Charles Lamb Quotes) Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart (Charles Lamb Quotes) For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print (Charles Lamb Quotes) Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question (Charles Lamb Quotes) Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life (Charles Lamb Quotes) Nursed amid her noise, her crowds, her beloved smoke, what have I been doing all my life, if I have not lent out my heart with usury to such scenes? (Charles Lamb Quotes) A good-natured woman... which is as much as you can expect from a friend's wife, whom you got acquainted with a bachelor (Charles Lamb Quotes) This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized (Charles Lamb Quotes) I am determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is (Charles Lamb Quotes) 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 Quotes) Riddle of destiny, who can show what thy short visit meant, or know what thy errand here below? (Charles Lamb Quotes) Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites. For my part, I do not care a farthing candle For either of them, nor for Handel (Charles Lamb Quotes) Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat? (Charles Lamb Quotes) The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling-a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy (Charles Lamb Quotes) I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves the very marrow of tradition 's shown; and all that history, much that fiction weaves (Charles Lamb Quotes) For I hate, yet love thee, so, that, whichever thing I show, the plain truth will seem to be a constrained hyperbole, and the passion to proceed more from a mistress than a weed (Charles Lamb Quotes) Thou in such a cloud dost bind us, That our worst foes cannot find us, and ill fortune, that would thwart us, Shoots at rovers, shooting at us; While each man, through thy height'ning steam, Does like a smoking Etna seem (Charles Lamb Quotes) For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord (Charles Lamb Quotes) Your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes (Charles Lamb Quotes) I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair (Charles Lamb Quotes) Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door (Charles Lamb Quotes) Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it (Charles Lamb Quotes) A presentation copy... Is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return (Charles Lamb Quotes) From a poor man, poor in time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in time for me (Charles Lamb Quotes) Each day used to be individually felt by me in its reference to the foreign post days; in its distance from, or propinquity to, the next Sunday. I had my Wednesday feelings, my Saturday nights' sensations (Charles Lamb Quotes) Sunday itself-that unfortunate failure of a holyday as it too often proved, what with my sense of its fugitiveness, and over-care to get the greatest quantity of pleasure out of it … (Charles Lamb Quotes) A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative (Charles Lamb Quotes) 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 Quotes) He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition (Charles Lamb Quotes) Many are the sayings of Elia... Scattered about in obscure periodicals and forgotten miscellanies. From the dust of some of these it is our intention occasionally to revive a tract or two that shall seem worthy of a better fate.... Seeing that Messieurs the Quarterly Reviewers have chosen to embellish their last dry pages with fruitful quotations therefrom (Charles Lamb Quotes)

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