Anna Laetitia Barbauld Quotes

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

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

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This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
At this still hour the self-collected soul
Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there
Of high descent, and more than mortal rank;
An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld
But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

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Come calm content serene and sweet,
O gently guide my pilgrim feet
To find thy hermit cell.

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

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

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Sweet daughter of a rough and stormy sire, hoar Winter's blooming child, delightful Spring.

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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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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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Health to my friend, and long unbroken years,
By storms unruffled and unstained by tears:
Winged by new joys may each white minute fly;
Spring on her cheek, and sunshine in her eye.

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Lo! the bright train their radiant wings unfold, With silver fring'd and freckl'd o'er with gold. On the gay bosom of some fragrant flower They idly fluttering live their little hour; Their life all pleasure, and their task all play, All spring their age, and sunshine all their day.

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Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew,
In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew—
Gay without toil, and lovely without art,
They spring to cheer the sense, and glad the heart.

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

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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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Love delights to bless
The generous transports of a fond excess.

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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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If mind, as ancient sages taught,
A never dying flame,
Still shifts thro' matter's varying forms,
In every form the same, Beware, lest in the worm you crush
A brother's soul you find;
And tremble lest thy luckless hand
Dislodge a kindred mind.

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Haste, precious pledge of happy love, to go
Auspicious borne through life's mysterious gate.

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When trembling limbs refuse their weight,
And films, slow gathering, dim the sight,
And clouds obscure the mental light, —
'Tis nature's precious boon to die.

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

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

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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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