Philip James Bailey - Festus

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Man is a military animal,
Glories in gunpowder, and loves parade;
Prefers them to all things.

Philip James Bailey
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end
Beginning, mean, and end to all things, — God.
The dead have all the glory of the world.

Philip James Bailey
America thou half-brother of the world!
With something good and bad of every land.

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

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

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 course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

Philip James Bailey
God puts his finger in the other scale, And up we bounce, a bubble. Nought is great Nor small, with God; for none but he can make The atom imperceptible, and none But he can make a world; he counts the orbs, He counts the atoms of the universe, And makes both equal; both are infinite.

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As dewdrops countless on the aetherial fields Of the skies.

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Unimaginable space, As full of suns as is earth's sun of atoms.

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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

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

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

Philip James Bailey
Any heart turned Godward feels more joy
In one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised
By all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

Philip James Bailey
There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes,
Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.

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

Philip James Bailey
Blessings star forth forever; but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.

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
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
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