"And when midst fallen London, they survey The……" — Anna Letitia Barbauld
"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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25 Quotes by Anna Letitia Barbauld
Anna Letitia Barbauld has 25 quotes on this site.
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone…
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But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
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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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The first pale blossom of the unripened year.
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So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of…
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The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all…
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There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that…
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Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'
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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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More Ashes Quotes
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A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's…
— Michele Bachmann
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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise…
— Anne Baxter
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
— Thomas Browne
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
— Leonard Cohen
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm…
— Pablo Neruda
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Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will…
— George W. Bush
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow…
— Tennessee Williams
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
— Martial
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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle…
— Samuel Rutherford
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