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Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
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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Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
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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 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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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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