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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
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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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Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.
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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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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 should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.
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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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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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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.
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But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
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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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Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'
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It is to hope, though hope were lost.
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Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.
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The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.
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We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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We can only love what we know.
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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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