Philip James Bailey - Mind Quotes

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

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

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

Philip James Bailey