Joanna Baillie quotes

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)
But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is. View quote
Joanna Baillie
Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. View quote
Joanna Baillie
Oh, swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note, Soft moves the dipping oar! View quote
Joanna Baillie
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust. View quote
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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. View quote
Joanna Baillie
A willing heart adds feather to the heel. View quote
Joanna Baillie
I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments! View quote
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Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. View quote
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! View quote
Joanna Baillie
A willing heart adds feather to the heel, And makes the clown a winged Mercury. (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. View quote
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The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity. View quote
Joanna Baillie
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. View quote
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