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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
The inward sighs of humble penitenceRise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns
Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air. — Joanna Baillie
The plainest case in many words entangling.
— Joanna Baillie
A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.
— 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.
— Joanna Baillie
Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.
— Joanna Baillie
O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.
— Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.
— Joanna Baillie
Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.
— Joanna Baillie
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
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
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
— Joanna Baillie
It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.
— Joanna Baillie
I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!
— Joanna Baillie
But dreams full oft are found of real eventsThe form and shadows. — Joanna Baillie
My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.
— Joanna Baillie
A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.
— Joanna Baillie
If my heart were not light, I would die.
— Joanna Baillie
I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.
— Joanna Baillie
It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man ...
— Joanna Baillie
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
Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye
— Joanna Baillie
Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.
— Joanna Baillie
Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.
— Joanna Baillie
Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.
— Joanna Baillie
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
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
The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.
— Joanna Baillie
Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.
— Joanna Baillie
A willing heart adds feather to the heel.
— Joanna Baillie