Joanna Baillie
A willing heart adds feather to the heel.Collection: Heart
A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.Collection: Women
If my heart were not light, I would die.Collection: Heart
I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!Collection: Running
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.Collection: Pride
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.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Triumph
Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.Collection: Time
Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.Collection: Eye
The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.Collection: Bliss
Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.Collection: Law
Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.Collection: Sports
Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.Collection: Blow
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!Collection: Mean
It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .Collection: Men
Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.Collection: 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.Collection: Pride
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.Collection: Men
He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl.Collection: Blood
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.Collection: Lying
But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.Collection: Sad
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?Collection: Writing
My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.Collection: Fate
The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.Collection: Mind
O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.Collection: Art
The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.Collection: Men
I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: 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.Collection: Dog
Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.Collection: Affection
Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eyeCollection: Eye
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.Collection: Beauty
Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.Collection: Women
A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.Collection: Prayer
Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.Collection: Men
The plainest case in many words entangling.Collection: Cases
It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.Collection: Dark