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Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: 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.

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.

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: Happy is he to whom, in the maturer season of life, there remains one tried and constant friend ...

Happy is he to whom, in the maturer season of life, there remains one tried and constant friend ...

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

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 quotes: The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: It is to hope, though hope were lost.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: We should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

We should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: 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.

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.

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.

We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun ...

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun ...

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.

The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy ...

Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy ...

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: If an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

If an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: 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!

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!

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: We can only love what we know.

We can only love what we know.

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.

Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.

The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.

Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes: The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.