Philip James Bailey - Soul Quotes

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Soul of the world, divine Necessity,
Servant of God, and master of all things.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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