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Joanna Baillie Quotes


A Scottish poet and dramatist. 
Joanna Baillie (11 September 1762 – 23 February 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, she hosted a brilliant literary society in her cottage at Hampstead. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.

Here are some famous quotes by  Joanna Baillie. 

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

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The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.

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Words of affection howsoe'er expressed The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

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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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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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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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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 barely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

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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 these and men look back Worn and bewilder'd wondering how it is.