Date: 1790, 1794, 1795, 1818, 1827
"The cistern contains: the fountain overflows / One thought, fills immensity."
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Date: 1790, 1794, 1795, 1818, 1827
"Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast."
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Date: 1790, 1794, 1795, 1818, 1827
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite."
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Date: 1790, 1794, 1795, 1818, 1827
"For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."
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Date: 1790, 1794, 1795, 1818, 1827
"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, & breeds reptiles of the mind."
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Date: 1791
"In his soul was the serpent coil'd round in his heart, hid from the light, as in a cleft rock"
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Date: 1791
"Each vice, to minds depraved by bondage known, / With sure contagion fastens on his own."
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Date: 1791
"[I]mpetuous Passion's flame" may be blown to rage
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Date: 1791
"The whirlwind wakes of uncontrouled desire"
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Date: 1791
The "buds of Virtue" may be blasted as they blow
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)