Joanna Baillie Short Quotes

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

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Heaven oft in mercy smites, even when the blow severest is.

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Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

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The hushed winds wail with feeble moan
Like infant charity.

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O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues hast thou.

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But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.

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

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

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Though duller thoughts succeed, the bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.

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

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Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.

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My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

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Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd,
The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

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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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This pure air
Braces the listless nerves, and warms the blood:
I feel in freedom here.

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

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

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

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

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

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It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

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Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

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

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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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A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to hear is in immediate danger.

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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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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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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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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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