Joanna Baillie Quotes

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A willing heart adds feather to the heel,
And makes the clown a winged Mercury.

Joanna Baillie
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Joanna Baillie
The inward sighs of humble penitence
Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns
Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air.

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She who only finds her self-esteem
In others' admiration, begs an alms;
Depends on others for her daily food,
And is the very servant of her slaves;
Tho' oftentimes, in a fantastic hour,
O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert,
Which not ennobles but degrades her state.

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Some men are born to feast, and not to fight;
Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field,
Still on their dinner turn—
Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,
And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.

Joanna Baillie
Still on it creeps, each little moment at another's heels, till hours, days, years, and ages are made up.

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I would, God knows, in a poor woodman's hut
Have spent my peaceful days, and shared my crust
With her who would have cheer'd me, rather far
Than on this throne; but being what I am,
I'll be it nobly.

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The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

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The tyrant now
Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber
The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend
He now dare trust.

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'Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base;
Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence,
Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh
When morning shines upon it.

Joanna Baillie
The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle Girdeth the weak.

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Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
And if upon its stillness fall
The visions of a busy brain,
We'll have our pleasure o'er again,
To warm the heart, to charm the sight,
Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.

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Oh, swiftly glides the bonnie boat,
Just parted from the shore,
And to the fisher's chorus-note,
Soft moves the dipping oar!

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Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

Joanna Baillie
The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational;
But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,
And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

Joanna Baillie
To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur, these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty.

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O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd?

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Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye

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I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

Joanna Baillie
I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

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Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

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Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.

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Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

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Some thousand carcasses, living and dead, Of those who first shall glut the en'my's rage, Push'd in, pell-mell, by those who press behind Will rear for us a bridge to mount the breach Where ablest engineers had work'd in vain.

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This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.

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It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man...

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But dreams full oft are found of real events
The form and shadows.

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That look'd
As though an angel, in his upward flight,
Had left his mantle floating in mid-air.

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Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.

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I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.

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