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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?


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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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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!



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.



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The first pale blossom of the unripened year.



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



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It is to hope, though hope were lost.



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This page presents the quote "Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?". Author of this quote is Anna Letitia Barbauld. This quote is about countenance, red, eye, weeping, sad, mortality, children,.