My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. ✨ Charles La…

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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. ✨ Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works, p.89
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Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them. ✨ Letter to Thomas Manning, 2 January 1810, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and M … ▶
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, … ▶
To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. ✨ Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works, p.89

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