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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
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Anna Letitia Barbauld
Age: 81 †
Born: 1743
Born: June 20
Died: 1825
Died: March 9
Essayist
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Leicestershire
England
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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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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.
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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!
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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.
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we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.
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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. . . .
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Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.
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We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.
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Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
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Time deals gently with me and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.
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Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'
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Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.
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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.
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Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.
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We can only love what we know.
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if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.
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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.
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It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.
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It is to hope, though hope were lost.
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