Quotes by Joanna Baillie

Joanna Baillie

A good man’s prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven’s height, and bring a blessing down.

Blessing

Men

Prayer

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

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High Heels

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

Courageous

Danger

Women

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.

Garden

Home

Women

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

Degrees

Ease

Sports

But dreams full oft are found of real events The form and shadows.

Dream

Real

Shadow

But woman’s grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

Sad

Summer

Women

Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye

Dark

Eye

Moon

Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

Eye

Half

Mind

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

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Ease

Giving

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Dog

Dream

Earth

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Fire

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Quotes by Joanna Baillie

Joanna Baillie

A good man’s prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven’s height, and bring a blessing down.

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

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.

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

But dreams full oft are found of real events The form and shadows.

But woman’s grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye

Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

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

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