if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
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… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
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… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Eternity.Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must be, yet… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
