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A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.

A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.

Charles Lamb
Sweet, Children, Sweetest
'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People'

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Charles Lamb
Religious, Children, Father
Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Philip Hamilton McMillan Memorial Publication Fund (1935). “The letters of Charles Lamb: to which are added those of his sister Mary Lamb”

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Charles Lamb
Children, Law, Political
Essays of Elia "The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple" (1823)

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Charles Lamb
Strength, Children, Men
'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'Witches, and Other Night-Fears'

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth, to save a halfpenny. It is good to believe him.

Charles Lamb
Children, Believe, Names
Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.75

How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady. In the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband!

Charles Lamb
Cheer, Children, Husband

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.

Charles Lamb
Sweet, Children, Bears
Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.141

Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

Charles Lamb
Children, Heart, Childhood

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

Charles Lamb
Children, Parent, Serious
Charles Lamb (1845). “The Essays of Elia: First Series. [Second Series.]”, p.167

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
Children, Science, Men
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.118

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
Children, Pride, People
Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.133

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

Charles Lamb
Dream, Children, Wings
Charles Lamb, Alfred Ainger, Mary Lamb (1899). “The Life and Works of Charles Lamb: In Twelve Volumes”

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.

Charles Lamb
Sweet, Children, Kind
'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People'

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