Philip James Bailey Quotes

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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
The world is a great poem, and the world's
The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.

Philip James Bailey
The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds
Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart
Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be.
Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them,
Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven.
All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.

Philip James Bailey
Thou wilt not chronicle our sand-like sins;
For sin is small, and mean, and barren. Good
Only is great, and generous, and fruitful.
Number the mountains, not the sands, O God!

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

Philip James Bailey
What are ye orbs?
The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

Philip James Bailey
Let each man think himself an act of God,
His mind a thought, his life a breath of God;
And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds,
To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Philip James Bailey
Star unto star speaks light, and world to world
Repeats the passage of the universe
To God; the name of Christ — the one great word
Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.

Philip James Bailey
Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.

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

Philip James Bailey
Who never doubted never half believed,
Where doubt there truth is — 'tis her shadow.

Philip James Bailey
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which
Men are and ought to be accountable, —
If not to Thee, to those they influence.

Philip James Bailey
Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.

Philip James Bailey
Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers;
How brave, how bright his life! then mark him hiv'd,
Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell,
Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men
Lie deep in cities as in drifts.

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

Philip James Bailey
It is sad
To see the light of beauty wane away,
Know eyes are dimming, bosoms shrivelling, feet
Losing their springs, and limbs their lily roundness;
But it is worse to feel the heart-spring gone,
To lose hope, care not for the coming thing,
And feel all things go to decay within us.

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

Philip James Bailey
Men might be better if we better deemed
Of them. The worst way to improve the world
Is to condemn it.

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
Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.

Philip James Bailey
Long, glorious locks, which drop upon thy cheek like gold-hued cloud-flakes on the rosy morn.

Philip James Bailey