Joanna Baillie: Still

Joanna Baillie was Scottish poet and dramatist. Explore interesting quotes on still.
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“Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd,
The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.”

Joanna Baillie

Address to Miss Agnes Baillie on her Birthday, line 126; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 902.

“Some men are born to feast, and not to fight;
Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field,
Still on their dinner turn—
Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,
And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.”

Joanna Baillie

Act I, scene 1.
Count Basil (1798)

Men , Home , Fight

“Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
And if upon its stillness fall
The visions of a busy brain,
We'll have our pleasure o'er again,
To warm the heart, to charm the sight,
Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.”

Joanna Baillie

The Phantom, song (1836); reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 201.

Pleasure , Dreams , Business , Sleep