Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door
More Quotes from 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 Why is it almost everywhere vanished If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance. It spoke of moderate labours, of pleasures not protracted after sunset, of temperance, and good hours. It was the primitive clock, the horologue of the first world. Adam could scare have missed it in Paradise.Charles Lamb
For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
Charles Lamb
And the best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear.
Charles Lamb
When I consider how little of a rarity children are that every street and blind alley swarms with them that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.
Charles Lamb
Those evening bells those evening bells How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime.
Charles Lamb
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