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Charles Lamb (February 10, 1775 - December 27, 1834) was an English writer known for his essays and literary criticism. Lamb is celebrated for his unique sense of humor and profound insights into everyday life. His most famous works include 'Elias Ward' and 'The Tales of a Grandfather'.

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Famous Charles Lamb Quotes

“Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?”

World Heart Children Left Childhood Bosoms Wisest Enchantment

Author:Charles Lamb

“While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.”

Children Dream Earth Left Imagination Childhood Holy Wings Spread

Book:The Life and Works of Charles Lamb: In Twelve Volumes

Source: The Life and Works of Charles Lamb: In Twelve Volumes

“A babe is fed with milk and praise.”

Childhood Praise Feds Milk Babe

Book:The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

“I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

School Faces Gone Childhood Familiar Companion Joyful Being Joyful School Days Familiar Things Familiar Faces

Author:Charles Lamb

“Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Natural Wife Childhood Tales Fairy Feds Fairy Tale Geography Fairytale Fables Natural History

Book:The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

“Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die.”

Knows Love Firsts Wells Eye Dies Hope Black Hours Tree Childhood Flower And Love Dear Glad Fades Decay Know Me Fade Away Black Eyes Gazelles

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

Men Feels Young Childhood Youth Mortals Young Man Thirty Fragility

Book: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: 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