Joanna Baillie Quotes

• A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

  Joanna Baillie

  Heart, High Heels, Add

  Joanna Baillie (1800). “A series of plays, in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind [by J. Baillie”, p.355

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

  Joanna Baillie

  Women, Courageous, Danger

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.709

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• If my heart were not light, I would die.

  Joanna Baillie

  Heart, Light, Dies

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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

  Running, People, Accomplishment

  Joanna Baillie (1821). “A series of plays, in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind [by J. Baillie”, p.61

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• Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

  Joanna Baillie

  Pride, Vanity, Vanity And Pride

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.112

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• To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished! To endure, and go calmly on! 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

  Dream, Stupid, Struggle

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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.

  Joanna Baillie

  Triumph, Has Beens

  Joanna Baillie (1836). “The separation: a tragedy”, p.173

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

  Joanna Baillie

  Time, Wings, Bears

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

  Joanna Baillie

  Blow, Heaven, Mercy

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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.

  Joanna Baillie

  Eye, Mind, Half

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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.

  Joanna Baillie

  Self Esteem, Men, May

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.27

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• The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

  Joanna Baillie

  Bliss, Moments, Stills

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

  Joanna Baillie

  Law, Care

  Joanna Baillie (1836). “Dramas”, p.238

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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.

  Joanna Baillie

  Sports, Degrees, Ease

  Joanna Baillie (1976). “The dramatic and poetical works”, p.806, Georg Olms Verlag

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• 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

  Mean, Men, Laughing

  Joanna Baillie (1806). “A Series of Plays: The election. Ethwald. The second marriage. 3d ed”, p.9

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

  Joanna Baillie

  Hombre, Joven, Viejo

  Joanna Baillie (2001). “Plays on the Passions”, p.266, Broadview Press

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

  Joanna Baillie

  Dream, Real, Shadow

  Joanna Baillie (1821). “The election. Ethwald. The second marriage”, p.153

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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.

  Joanna Baillie

  Moving, Justice, Boat

  Joanna Baillie, Judith Bailey Slagle (1999). “The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie”, p.128, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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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.

  Joanna Baillie

  Orgullo, Hombres, Nombres

  Joanna Baillie (1851). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume”, p.209

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• Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.

  Joanna Baillie

  Hombres, Años, Un Día

  Joanna Baillie (1851). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume”, p.413

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• He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl.

  Joanna Baillie

  Blood, Giving, Ease

  Joanna Baillie (1802). “A series of plays, in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind [by J. Baillie”, p.253

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• I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.

  Joanna Baillie

  Lying, Fire, Scorpions

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.45

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

  Joanna Baillie

  Sad, Summer, Women

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.48

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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?

  Joanna Baillie

  Writing, Lovely, Magic

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.782

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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.

  Joanna Baillie

  Good Night, Dream, Sweet

  Joanna Baillie (1836). “Dramas: The separation: a tragedy. The stripling: a tragedy ... written in prose. The phantom: a musical drama. Enthusiasm: a comedy”, p.253

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