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What is reading, but silent conversation. (Charles Lamb)
When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone. View quote
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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. View quote
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There was a little man, and he had a little soul And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try. View quote
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Those evening bells those evening bells How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime. View quote
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Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree. View quote
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The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more. View quote
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The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his. View quote
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Oh, breathe not his name let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid. View quote
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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. View quote
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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock. (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. View quote
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We are nothing less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name. View quote
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In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world. View quote
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I ask and wish not to appear More beauteous, rich or gay Lord, make me wiser every year, And better every day. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Go where glory waits thee But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me. View quote
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The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day 'I hate that man.' 'But you dont know him.' 'Of course, I dont,' said Lamb. 'Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know' View quote
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Atheists, or Deists only in the name, By word or deed deny a God. They eat Their daily bread, & draw the breath of heaven, Without a thought or thanks; heav'n's roof to them Is but a painted ceiling hung with lamps, No more, that light them to their purposes. They 'wander loose about.' They nothing see, Themselves except, and creatures like themselves, That liv'd short-sighted, impotent to save. So on their dissolute spirits, soon or late, Destruction cometh 'like an armed man,' Or like a dream of murder in the night, Withering their mortal faculties, & breaking The bones of all their pride. View quote
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