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If an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.
The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1825)
We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.
The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1825)
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.
The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1825)
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.
The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1825)
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.
The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1825)
Life! we've been long together,
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
'Tis hard to part when friends are dear,;br>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.
The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1825)
Let us confess a truth, humiliating perhaps to human pride;—a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association—in short, by prejudice.
The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1825)