Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes

#1. Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

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#2. The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.

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#3. It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.

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#4. Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea ...

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#5. The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

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#6. Happy is he to whom, in the maturer season of life, there remains one tried and constant friend ...

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#7. The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

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#8. But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

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#9. Many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

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#10. Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

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#11. Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

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#12. We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.

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#13. While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

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#14. Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

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#15. The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

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#16. If an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

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#17. And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

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#18. So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

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#19. It is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

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#20. Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

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#21. The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

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#22. We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

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#23. We can only love what we know.

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#24. Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

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#25. When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

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#26. You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun ...

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#27. Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy ...

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#28. Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

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#29. Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.

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#30. The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.

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#31. The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

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#32. It is to hope, though hope were lost.

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#33. We should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

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#34. Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.

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