Anna Laetitia Barbauld Short Quotes

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Yes, injured Woman! rise, assert thy right!

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Wisdom! I bless thy gentle sway, and ever, ever will obey.

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

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Thy peace is sealed, thy rest is sure,
My sorrows are to come.

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

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Nature's sharpest pangs... free thee living from thy living tomb.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I read his awful name, emblazon'd high
With golden letters on th' illumin'd sky.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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The chearful light, the vital air,
Are blessings widely given ;
Let nature's commoners enjoy
The common gifts of heaven.

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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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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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Meek-eyed Eve, her cheek yet warm with blushes, slow retires through the Hesperian gardens of the west, and shuts the gates of day.

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OH! hear a pensive captive's prayer,
For liberty that sighs ;
And never let thine heart be shut
Against the prisoner's cries.

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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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Life! I know not what thou art,
But know that thou and I must part;
And when, or how, or where we met,
I own to me's a secret yet.

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