“Mother's love grows by giving.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb
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Source: The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works
Source: The Essays of Elia
“We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.”
Source: Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale
Source: The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia
“The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.”
Source: Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials
Source: The Essays of Elia
“His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.”
Source: The Complete Correspondence and Works of Charles Lamb: With an Essay on His Life and Genius
Source: The Essays of Elia: First Series. [Second Series.]
“The vices of some men are magnificent.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: Essays and sketches
“I am in love with this green Earth.”
Source: The Essays of Elia and Eliana
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life
“In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.”
Source: Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life
“May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.”
Source: Final memorials of Charles Lamb, letters [ed.] with sketches of some of his companions by T.N. Talfourd
“Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb ...
“Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.”
Source: The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb
“To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials
Source: Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale
Source: Letters ... with a sketch of his life
“The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.”
Source: The Essays of Elia
“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”
Source: Essays of Elia
Source: Essays of Elia
Source: Talfourd, T. N. Life and letters
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb
Source: Essays of Elia
“How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!”
Source: Little essays, sketches and characters, by C. Lamb, selected from his letters by P. Fitzgerald
“Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?”
“Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.”
“And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.”