Philip James Bailey Quotes

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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

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

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

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

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
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

Philip James Bailey
See the gold sunshine patching,
And streaming and streaking across
The gray-green oaks; and catching,
By its soft brown beard, the moss.

Philip James Bailey
Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

Philip James Bailey
The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

Philip James Bailey
Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.

Philip James Bailey
The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

Philip James Bailey
The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.

Philip James Bailey
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

Philip James Bailey
Thy great name
In all its awful brevity, hath nought
Unholy breeding it, but doth bless
Rather the tongue that uses it; for me,
I ask no higher office than to fling
My spirit at Thy feet, and cry Thy name,
God! through eternity.

Philip James Bailey
Leave the poor
Some time for self-improvement. Let them not
Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms
For bread, but have some space to think and feel
Like moral and immortal creatures.

Philip James Bailey
Worthy books
Are not companions—they are solitudes:
We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

Philip James Bailey
Evil is limited. One cannot form
A scheme for universal evil.

Philip James Bailey
The firefly only shines when on the wing; so is it with the mind; when once we rest, we darken.

Philip James Bailey
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life
But needs it, and may learn.

Philip James Bailey
True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form,
The bended knee, the eye uplift, is all
Which men need render; all which God can bear.
What to the faith are forms? A passing speck,
A crow upon the sky.

Philip James Bailey
Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search and shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; rush over it like rivers over reeds.

Philip James Bailey
Thy talk is the sweet extract of all speech,
And holds mine ear in blissful slavery.

Philip James Bailey
Stars which stand as thick as dew-drops on the field of heaven.

Philip James Bailey
I love night more than day — she is so lovely;
But I love night the most because she brings
My love to me in dreams which scarcely lie.

Philip James Bailey
Thou art a woman,
And that is saying the best and worst of thee.

Philip James Bailey
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

Philip James Bailey
Joys
Are bubble-like — what makes them,
Bursts them too.

Philip James Bailey
Lowliness is the basis of every virtue; and he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

Philip James Bailey
I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one great woe of life
To feel all feeling die.

Philip James Bailey