94 ordspråk av Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb föddes den February 10th 1775 och dog den 27 December 1834 - English writer
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 The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking. |
| The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. |
| The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. |
| The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility |
| The vices of some men are magnificent. |
| There is a pleasure in affecting affectation |
| To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. |
| To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. |
| Truths, which transcend the searching School-men's vein, / And half had staggered that stout Stagirite. |
| We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one |
| We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name. |
| 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. |
| We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. |
| What a liberal confounding of those pedantic distinctions of meum and tuum! or rather what a noble simplification of language! |
| What is reading, but silent conversation. |
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