Joanna Baillie Quotes (23 Quotes)

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

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

Thinks't thou there are no serpents in the world; But those that slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them; There are who in the path of social Iife; Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting th.

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.

The mind cloth shape itself to its own wants And can bear all things.

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

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.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

How do men act, when they together stand,on the last perch of this swiftly-sinking wreck; Do they not bravely give their parting cheer, And make their last voice loud and bo; Idly sound; Amidst the hollow roarings of the storm.

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

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.

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

He was not all a father's heart could wish But oh, he was my son my only son.

O who shall lightly say that fame is nothing but an empty name.

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

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

What custom hath endeared; We part with sadly, tho we prize it not.

The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.

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!

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.

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

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.

Friendship is no plant of hasty growth Tho' planted in esteem's deep fixed soil, The gradual culture of kind intercourse Must bring it to perfection.