Top 35 Joanna Baillie Quotes (2024 Update)

Joanna Baillie Quote: “The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.”

1. “The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “A good man’s prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven’s height, and bring a blessing down.”

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

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “But woman’s grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.”

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

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.”

4. “The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “Words of affection, howsoe’er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem’d the best.”

5. “Words of affection, howsoe’er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem’d the best.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “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?”

6. “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?”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.”

8. “I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “A willing heart adds feather to the heel.”

9. “A willing heart adds feather to the heel.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.”

10. “O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.”

12. “Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!”

13. “I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye.”

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

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.”

17. “Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “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!”

18. “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!”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.”

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

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

20. “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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Joanna Baillie Quote: “A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.”

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

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “If my heart were not light, I would die.”

22. “If my heart were not light, I would die.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.”

26. “Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.”

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

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.”

28. “My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher’s chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.”

29. “Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher’s chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “The plainest case in many words entangling.”

30. “The plainest case in many words entangling.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “Men’s actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.”

31. “Men’s actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.”

32. “The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.”

33. “The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.”

34. “Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.”

35. “It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.”

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Joanna Baillie Quote: “Amongst the many trials to which the human mind is subjected, that of holding intercourse, real or imaginary, with the world of spirits: of finding itself alone with a being terrific and awful, whose nature and power are unknown, has been justly considered the most severe.”

36. “Amongst the many trials to which the human mind is subjected, that of holding intercourse, real or imaginary, with the world of spirits: of finding itself alone with a being terrific and awful, whose nature and power are unknown, has been justly considered the most severe.”

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