Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes

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• We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
• When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how…
• But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
• The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
• Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read…
• The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
• The first pale blossom of the unripened year.
• 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 wave…
• The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.
• There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there is eternal spring,…
• Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'
• Happy is he to whom, in the maturer season of life, there remains one tried and constant friend...
• The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse…
• Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.
• Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
• While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.
• We can only love what we know.
• Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.
• The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.
• 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…

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