48 Quotes by Anna Letitia Barbauld

Is there notA tongue in every star that talks with man,And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.

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

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

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

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

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

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!

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

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.