Quote#Time
A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do.…
Quote byCharles Lamb · 1775–1834
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Last Essays of Elia (1833), “The superannuated man”.
English (original)
A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.
— Charles Lamb
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For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.
I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days— All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
I have something more to do than to feel.
Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.
Severe and saintly righteousness Composed the clear white bridal dress; Jesus, the Son of Heaven's high King Bought with his blood the marriage ring
Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question.