Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes

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)
Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky. View quote
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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 day; So dies a wave along the shore. View quote
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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." View quote
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? View quote
Anna Letitia Barbauld
It is to hope, though hope were lost. View quote
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If e'er thy breast with freedom glow'd, And spurn'd a tyrant's chain, Let not thy strong oppressive force A free-born mouse detain. View quote
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So when unseen destruction lurks, Which men like mice may share, May some kind angel clear thy path, And break the hidden snare. View quote
Anna Letitia Barbauld
The chearful light, the vital air, Are blessings widely given; Let nature's commoners enjoy The common gifts of heaven. View quote
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Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew, In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew- Gay without toil, and lovely without art, They spring to cheer the sense, and glad the heart. View quote
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone? (Anna Letitia Barbauld)
The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. View quote
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But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 sweet it is to die! View quote
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OH! hear a pensive captive's prayer, For liberty that sighs; And never let thine heart be shut Against the prisoner's cries. View quote
Anna Letitia Barbauld
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. View quote
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I read his awful name, emblazon'd high With golden letters on th' illumin'd sky. View quote
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Come calm content serene and sweet, O gently guide my pilgrim feet To find thy hermit cell. View quote
Anna Letitia Barbauld
With Thee in shady solitudes I walk, With Thee in busy, crowded cities talk; In every creature own Thy forming power, In each event Thy providence adore. View quote
Anna Letitia Barbauld
If mind, as ancient sages taught, A never dying flame, Still shifts thro' matter's varying forms, In every form the same, Beware, lest in the worm you crush A brother's soul you find; And tremble lest thy luckless hand Dislodge a kindred mind. (Anna Letitia Barbauld)
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. View quote
Anna Letitia Barbauld