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  • Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.

  • Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute-- Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good-- Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.

    Joanna Baillie (1806). “A series of plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind: each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy”, p.98
  • A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

    Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.709
  • Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.

    Joanna Baillie (1836). “Dramas”, p.238
  • Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

  • 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 (1836). “The separation: a tragedy”, p.173
  • The inward sighs of humble penitence Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air.

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  • 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 (1976). “The dramatic and poetical works”, p.806, Georg Olms Verlag
  • But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

    Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.48
  • 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, Judith Bailey Slagle (1999). “The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie”, p.128, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

    Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.112
  • The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

  • The plainest case in many words entangling.

  • 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 (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.45
  • 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 (1851). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume”, p.209
  • I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.

    Joanna Baillie (1851). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume”, p.525
  • 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 (1832). “The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie”, p.267
  • 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.

  • 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 (1806). “A Series of Plays: The election. Ethwald. The second marriage. 3d ed”, p.9
  • My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

  • 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 (1832). “The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie”, p.88
  • Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! And if upon its stillness fall The visions of a busy brain, We'll have our pleasure o'er again, To warm the heart, to charm the sight, Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.

    Joanna Baillie (1836). “Dramas: The separation: a tragedy. The stripling: a tragedy ... written in prose. The phantom: a musical drama. Enthusiasm: a comedy”, p.253
  • War is honorable In those who do their native rights maintain; In those whose swords an iron barrier are Between the lawless spoiler and the weak; But is, in those who draw th' offensive blade For added power or gain, sordid and despicable As meanest office of the worldly churl.

    Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.173
  • 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 (1802). “A series of plays, in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind [by J. Baillie”, p.253
  • If my heart were not light, I would die.

  • A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

    Joanna Baillie (1800). “A series of plays, in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind [by J. Baillie”, p.355
  • She who only finds her self-esteem In others' admiration, begs an alms; Depends on others for her daily food, And is the very servant of her slaves; Tho' oftentimes, in a fantastic hour, O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert, Which not ennobles but degrades her state.

    Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.27
  • O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.

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

    Joanna Baillie (1821). “A series of plays, in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind [by J. Baillie”, p.61
  • Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.

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