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With Thee in shady solitudes I walk,
With Thee in busy, crowded cities talk,
In every creature own Thy forming power,
In each event Thy providence adore.

— Anna Laetitia Barbauld Poems (1773)

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

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

The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1825)

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

This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.

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