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 More Quotes by Joanna Baillie More Quotes From Joanna Baillie A willing heart adds feather to the heel. Joanna Baillie high-heels heart add If my heart were not light, I would die. Joanna Baillie dies light heart 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 A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger. Joanna Baillie courageous women danger Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. Joanna Baillie vanity-and-pride vanity pride She who only finds her self-esteem Joanna Baillie self-esteem may men But dreams full oft are found of real events Joanna Baillie shadow real dream 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 degrees ease sports Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked. Joanna Baillie bears wings time 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 laughing men mean Me care for te laws when te laws care for me. Joanna Baillie care law Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest. Joanna Baillie mercy blow heaven 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 one-day men years I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments! Joanna Baillie accomplishment running people 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 stupid struggle dream 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 boat justice moving 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 pride names men Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! Joanna Baillie good-night dream sweet Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole. Joanna Baillie eye half mind I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press. Joanna Baillie forever believe moving
