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Joanna Baillie Quote

“I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!”

— Joanna Baillie

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A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

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Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

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I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

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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 bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

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What custom hath endeared We part with sadly, though we prize it not.

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Ability involves responsibility. Power to its last particle is duty.

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