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Quotes by Aikin Barbauld

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

Aikin Barbauld (1743 - 1825)
 
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

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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!

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

Aikin Barbauld (1743 - 1825)
Source: Ovid to His Wife
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Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

Aikin Barbauld (1743 - 1825)
Source: Leave Me, Simple Shepherd
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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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This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.

Aikin Barbauld (1743 - 1825)
Source: A Summer's Evening Meditation.
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The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

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

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Source: The Invitation.
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We can only love what we know.

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