WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:39:47 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg libertine – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Barbauld, Anna -- “An Inquiry into those Kinds of Distress which Excite Agreeable Sensations” (1773) https://wist.info/barbauld-anna/28909/ https://wist.info/barbauld-anna/28909/#respond Mon, 06 Apr 2015 12:11:12 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=28909 The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation,– if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they recur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.


Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) English woman of letters, educator, editor [née Aikin]
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