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. -Anna Letitia Barbauld

 

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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We can only love what we know.

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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!

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

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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

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