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

Anna Letitia Barbauld

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Anna Letitia Barbauld
Age: 81 †
Born: 1743
Born: June 20
Died: 1825
Died: March 9
Essayist
Literary Critic
Poet
Leicestershire
England
Anna Laetitia Aiken
Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Strengthens
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'
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Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
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