Joanna Baillie - Soul Quotes

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'Tis ever thus when favours are denied;
All had been granted but the thing we beg:
And still some great unlikely substitute —
Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good —
Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.

Joanna Baillie

Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world
But those who slide along the grassy sod,
And sting the luckless foot that presses them?
There are who in the path of social life
Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun,
And sting the soul.

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.

Joanna Baillie