"But woman's grief is like a summer storm,……" — Joanna Baillie
"But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is."
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Joanna Baillie
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17 Quotes by Joanna Baillie
Joanna Baillie has 17 quotes on this site.
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He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor,…
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The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.
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A willing heart adds feather to the heel.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished!…
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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…
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Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.
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Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
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I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!
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I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now,…
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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…
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O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And…
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The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He…
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as…
— Kathleen Battle
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
— Martha Beck
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
— Aeschylus
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for…
— William Blake
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed…
— James Buchan
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To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to…
— Alcaeus
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
— William S. Burroughs
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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that…
— Lord Byron
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