Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes

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• We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Laughter, Laughing, Praying

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.420

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• The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Life, Mind, Important

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.190

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• The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Moon Night, Midnight, Noon

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.100, Broadview Press

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• We can only love what we know.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Love, Rebuilding, Peru

  Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) (1826). “A Legacy for Young Ladies: Consisting of Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse”, p.125

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• 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

  Children, Example, Use

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.312

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• many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Knowledge, Knowing, Giving

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.148

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• But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

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  Faith, Consequence

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.445

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• 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

  Eye, Compassion, Giving

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.37

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• 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, and light without any cloud. The tree of life groweth in the midst thereof; rivers of pleasures are there, and flowers that never fade. Myriads of happy spirits are there, and surround the throne of God with a perpetual hymn. The angels with their golden harps sing praises continually, and the cherubim fly on wings of fire! This country is Heaven.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Country, Spring, Flower

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.310, Broadview Press

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• Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Pride, Train Of Thought, Track

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Broadview Press

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• The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Love, Heart, Two

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.92

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• Life! we've been long together
  Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
  Tis hard to part when friends are dear,-
  Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear.
  Then steal away, give little warning.
  Choose thine own time,
  Say not "Good-night," but in some brighter clime,
  Bid me "Good-morning."

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Life, Friends, Good Night

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.175, Broadview Press

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• 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

  Mind, Vivid, Awakening

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• Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Travel, Sorry, Eggs

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.65

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

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Men, Solitude, Society

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.96

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• Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Time, Aging, Easy

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.95

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• You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Education, Son, Ideas

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.307

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• 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 tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Son, Simple, Higher Ground

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.384, Broadview Press

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• Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Law, Giving, Different

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.123

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• It is to hope, though hope were lost.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Hope, Losing, Lost Hope

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.74

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• While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Strength, Different, Genius

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.167

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• it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Imbibing, Prejudice, Absurd

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.337, Broadview Press

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• 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 and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Brother, Father, Reading

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.18

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• 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 and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Should Have, Class, Gentleman

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes”, p.17

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• Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Shining, Locks, Radiance

  Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin (1826). “The works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld: with a memoir”, p.87

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