Philip James Bailey Quotes

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

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

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

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

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.

Evil then results from imperfection.

When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.

I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more, As look upon it with an empty eye. I would this world were over. I am tired.

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

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

It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

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

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

The temples perish, but the God still lives.

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

Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

My favoured temple is an humble heart.

Doubt is the shadow of truth.

The truth of truths is love.

Imagination is the air of mind.

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

Error is worse than ignorance.

Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.

Thou art a woman, And that is saying the best and worst of thee.

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

When pride thaws, look for floods.

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

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

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

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

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.

Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.

The sole equality on earth is death.

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

The long days are no happier than the short ones.

The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.