We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. Charles Lamb More Quotes by Charles Lamb More Quotes From Charles Lamb As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion, Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee. As still to the star of its worship, though clouded, The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea, So dark when I roam in this wintry world shrouded, The hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee. Charles Lamb stars prayer sweet How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty. Charles Lamb health self men For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die. Charles Lamb tobacco sake smoking 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. Charles Lamb childhood gone school Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her. Charles Lamb wedding marriage couple His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with. Charles Lamb obnoxious voice sarcastic A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being. Charles Lamb serious parent children Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me! Charles Lamb glory waiting remember May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't. Charles Lamb three smoking two This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised. Charles Lamb other-worlds smoking night Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil? Charles Lamb men science children In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world. Charles Lamb behinds science world Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat? Charles Lamb science world art I am in love with this green Earth. Charles Lamb green earth love The vices of some men are magnificent. Charles Lamb magnificent vices men A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity. Charles Lamb pieces family shadow Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected. Charles Lamb funny-best-friend inspiring friendship Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains. Charles Lamb dust war blood No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference. Charles Lamb new-year time years Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. Charles Lamb body absence mind
