You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
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. — 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
The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone? — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
