The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. — 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 and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous. — 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
