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Joanna Baillie quotes: Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

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 quotes: The inward sighs of humble penitenceRise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymnsAre scatter'd with the sounds of common air.

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.

Joanna Baillie quotes: The plainest case in many words entangling.

The plainest case in many words entangling.

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

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

Joanna Baillie quotes: The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.

The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.

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

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

Joanna Baillie quotes: O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.

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

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

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

Joanna Baillie quotes: Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

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

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

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joanna Baillie quotes: But dreams full oft are found of real eventsThe form and shadows.

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

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

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

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

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

Joanna Baillie quotes: If my heart were not light, I would die.

If my heart were not light, I would die.

Joanna Baillie quotes: I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.

I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.

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

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

Joanna Baillie quotes: The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.

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

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

Joanna Baillie quotes: Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.

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

Joanna Baillie quotes: Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.

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

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

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

Joanna Baillie quotes: 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?

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 quotes: Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

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 quotes: The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

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

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

Joanna Baillie quotes: A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.