Books which are no books. ✨ Charles Lamb (1841). The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb
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Books which are no books. ✨ Charles Lamb (1841). The Essays of Elia
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'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear; And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.
Not if I know myself at all. ✨ Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life, p.68
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with butter … ▶
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!
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 th … ▶

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