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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.
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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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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Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
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The first pale blossom of the unripened year.
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It is to hope, though hope were lost.
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The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.
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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 best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.
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Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'
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We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
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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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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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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 should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.
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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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Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.
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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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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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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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Time deals gently with me and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.
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