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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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if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.
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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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We can only love what we know.
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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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we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.
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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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Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
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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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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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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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The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.
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Time deals gently with me and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.
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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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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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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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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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