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we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.
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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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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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 dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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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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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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The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.
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The first pale blossom of the unripened year.
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Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.
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But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
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It is to hope, though hope were lost.
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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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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 can only love what we know.
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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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Time deals gently with me and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.
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Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'
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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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