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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

“I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.”

Heart Library Thee

Book:The Works of Charles Lamb

Source: The Works of Charles Lamb

“What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance.”

Source: A complete Elia: The essays of Elia, together with The last essays of Elia

“Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity.”

World Love Heart May Light Moving Fall Heaven Causes Hours Gone Sea Sorrow Wave Storm Ships Vain Rough Tied Alas Sunny Tranquillity Dissension

Author:Charles Lamb

“Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.”

Should Heart Spring Simplicity Should I Spontaneous

Book:Talfourd, T. N. Life and letters

Source: Talfourd, T. N. Life and letters

“Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.”

Heart Wit Gentle Combat Blades Stains

Author:Charles Lamb

“When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.”

Heart Power Peculiar Veins Strain Simplest

Author:Charles Lamb

“And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.”

Heart Young Stealing Stolen Maidens Young At Heart

Author:Charles Lamb

“I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.”

Giving Heart I Can Poor My Heart Stores Rings Thee

Author: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?”

Heart Home Dream Felt Sea Land Sweet Stealing

Author:Charles Lamb

“Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken.”

Love Years Heart Light Eye Night Memories Gone Tears Broken Bounds Chains Cheerful Slumber Boyhood Fond Memories

Author:Charles Lamb

“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.”

Ifs Feels Heart Soul Sleep Music Wall Pride Beats Glory Praise Former Halls Shed Thrill Pulse Mute Harps

Author:Charles Lamb

“When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?”

World Heart Lying Bleak True Heart

Author:Charles Lamb