Source: THE ESSAYS OF ELIA.
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“I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb
“There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.”
“We encourage one another in mediocrity.”
Source: Letters
Source: Eliana: Being the Hitherto Uncollected Writings of Charles Lamb
“To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.
Source: The Life and Works of Charles Lamb: In Twelve Volumes
“I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.”
Source: The letter of Charles Lamb, newly arranged: with additions; ed., with introduction and notes
“An album is a garden, not for show Planted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb
Source: Essays of Elia
“I cannot sit and think; books think for me.”
Source: The Essays of Elia and Eliana
Source: Essays of Elia
“Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.”
Source: Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials
“A babe is fed with milk and praise.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life
Source: Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund
“Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life
“It is good to have friends at court.”
Source: Essays of Elia
Source: Final Memorials of Charles Lamb; consisting chiefly of his Letters not before published, with sketches of some of his companions. By T. N. Talfourd
Source: The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb
“If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!”
Source: Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund
“The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.”
Source: The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. By T. N. Talfourd
“No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)
“I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb
“Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.”
Source: The life and letters
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb
Source: Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials
Source: Essays of Elia
Source: A complete Elia: The essays of Elia, together with The last essays of Elia
“You look wise, pray correct that error.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb
Source: 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
“By myself walking, To myself talking.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb. [With Six Poems by Mary Lamb.] A New Edition
“When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.”
Source: Elia
Source: 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
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)
“The world meets nobody half way.”
Source: The Essays of Elia
“We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.”
Source: Essays of Elia
“My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.”
Source: The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works
“Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.”