Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Joanna Baillie More Quotes by Joanna Baillie More Quotes From Joanna Baillie A willing heart adds feather to the heel. Joanna Baillie high-heelsheartadd If my heart were not light, I would die. Joanna Baillie dieslightheart 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 triumphhas-beens A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger. Joanna Baillie courageouswomendanger Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. Joanna Baillie vanity-and-pridevanitypride She who only finds her self-esteem Joanna Baillie self-esteemmaymen But dreams full oft are found of real events Joanna Baillie shadowrealdream 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 degreeseasesports Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked. Joanna Baillie bearswingstime 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 laughingmenmean Me care for te laws when te laws care for me. Joanna Baillie carelaw Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest. Joanna Baillie mercyblowheaven 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-daymenyears I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments! Joanna Baillie accomplishmentrunningpeople 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 stupidstruggledream 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 boatjusticemoving 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 pridenamesmen Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! Joanna Baillie good-nightdreamsweet 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 easegivingblood Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole. Joanna Baillie eyehalfmind
