Philip James Bailey Quotes

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Dew-drops, Nature's tears, which she
Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.
The sun insists on gladness; but at night,
When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.

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

Philip James Bailey
Why Mammon sits before a million hearths
Where God is bolted out from every house.

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

Philip James Bailey
I cannot be content with less than heaven;
Living, and comprehensive of all life.
Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;
Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;
Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,
Star-throned.

Philip James Bailey
Walk
Boldly and wisely in that light thou hast —
There is a hand above will help thee on.

Philip James Bailey
Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.

Philip James Bailey
Poetry is itself a thing of God;
He made his prophets poets; and the more
We feel of poesie do we become
Like God in love and power, — undermakers.

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

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

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

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

Philip James Bailey
Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.

Philip James Bailey
The sun, centre and sire of light,
The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.

Philip James Bailey
She spake,
And his love-wilder'd and idolatrous soul
Clung to the airy music of her words,
Like a bird on a bough, high swaying in the wind.

Philip James Bailey
Death is the universal salt of states;. Blood is the base of all things — law and war.

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

Philip James Bailey
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths,
And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

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
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
He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.

Philip James Bailey