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Joanna Baillie Quotes and Quotations
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. 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. The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss. The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss. 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? A willing heart adds feather to the heel. 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. I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments! Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. |