Change Quote by Anna Letitia Barbauld

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

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

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

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

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

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

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

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

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

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

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

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

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

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