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The first pale blossom of the unripened year.
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
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Leicestershire
England
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We can only love what we know.
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
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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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It is to hope, though hope were lost.
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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.
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The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.
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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.
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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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We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.
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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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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 most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
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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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While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.
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Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.
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