Me care for te laws when te laws care for me. Joanna Baillie More Quotes by Joanna Baillie More Quotes From Joanna Baillie Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Joanna Baillie shining pride morning The bliss even of a moment still is bliss. Joanna Baillie bliss stills moments Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye Joanna Baillie eye moon dark 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 lovely magic writing Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul. Joanna Baillie soul feet thinking 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 tyrants dog men But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is. Joanna Baillie women sad summer Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. Joanna Baillie affection stills O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou. Joanna Baillie tongue night art There is a sight all hearts beguiling-- Joanna Baillie mother heart sweet The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things. Joanna Baillie shapes mind want 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 weakness battle men To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty. Joanna Baillie rude powerful beauty The inward sighs of humble penitence Joanna Baillie hymns humble air Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence. Joanna Baillie events giving men War is honorable Joanna Baillie iron rights war Stand there, damn'd meddling villain, and be silent; Joanna Baillie hem speech earth 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 scorpions fire lying A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down. Joanna Baillie prayer blessing men I am as one Joanna Baillie mountain eye ambition