Philip James Bailey Quotes

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Man is a military animal,
Glories in gunpowder, and loves parade;
Prefers them to all things.

Philip James Bailey
America thou half-brother of the world!
With something good and bad of every land.

Philip James Bailey
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end
Beginning, mean, and end to all things, — God.
The dead have all the glory of the world.

Philip James Bailey
Even as when In planning some steel-rutted road, long years Dreamed of, — where now the fire-horse ramps, steam-breath'd, Sweating red coal-drops on his panting path, — The deep-eyed engineer his level lays Inscrutable, and anon, the hills with men, Brood of his brain swarm.

Philip James Bailey
The poet's pen is the true divining rod
Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling;
Bringing to light and use, else hid from all,
The many sweet clear sources which we have
Of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms;
And marks the variations of all mind
As does the needle.

Philip James Bailey
The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.

Philip James Bailey
It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.

Philip James Bailey
The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's Larger than this we leave, and lovelier. And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect, The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves. The will of God is all in all. He makes, Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.

Philip James Bailey
The sun, bright keystone of Heaven's world-built arch...

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Her cheek had the pale pearly pink
Of sea shells, the world's sweetest tint, as though
She lived, one-half might deem, on robes sopp'd
In pearly dew.

Philip James Bailey
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.

Philip James Bailey
It Is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.

Philip James Bailey
Thou wind?
Which art the unseen similitude of God
The Spirit, His most meet and mightiest sign.

Philip James Bailey
All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.

Philip James Bailey
Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

Philip James Bailey
When night hath set her silver lamp on high,
Then is the time for study.

Philip James Bailey
The wind breathes not, and the wave
Walks softly as above a grave.

Philip James Bailey
Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.

Philip James Bailey
England! my country, great and free!
Heart of the world, I leap to thee!

Philip James Bailey
Any heart turned Godward feels more joy
In one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised
By all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

Philip James Bailey
We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.

Philip James Bailey
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

Philip James Bailey
The best enjoyment is half disappointment to what we mean, or would have, in this world.

Philip James Bailey
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

Philip James Bailey
Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts
The world were poor in thanks, though every soul
Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade
Of grass, and every atomie of earth
To utter it like dew.

Philip James Bailey
O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!

Philip James Bailey
Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

Philip James Bailey
Not a single path
Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God.

Philip James Bailey
There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes,
Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.

Philip James Bailey
For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Philip James Bailey