Blessing Quote by Joanna Baillie

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

Joanna Baillie

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

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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…

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The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

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If my heart were not light, I would die.

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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.

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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…

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

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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…

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War is honorable In those who do their native rights maintain; In those whose swords an iron barrier are Between the lawless spoiler and…

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Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.

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

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“Time wasted can never be compensated”

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The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand Titian more and more and learning to love him. And then there is Botticelli's sweet Madonna, with red roses behind her, standing against a blue-green sky. And Fiesole with his poignant little biblical stories, so simply…

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