Joanna Baillie - Man Quotes

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Can spirit from the tomb, or fiend from hell,
More hateful, more malignant be than man —
Than villainous man?

Joanna Baillie

A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.

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

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

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!

Joanna Baillie

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.

Joanna Baillie

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

Joanna Baillie