Admiration Quote by Joanna Baillie

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

— Joanna Baillie

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…

— Joanna Baillie

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

— Joanna Baillie

If my heart were not light, I would die.

— Joanna Baillie

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

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…

— Joanna Baillie

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

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

— Joanna Baillie

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…

— Joanna Baillie

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

— Joanna Baillie

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

— Joanna Baillie

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

— Joanna Baillie