Philip James Bailey famous quotes

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Respect #Giving #Ethics

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 #Thinking #Heaven

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Prayer #Spirit

Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Hands #Helping #Walks

I have a heart with room for every joy .
-- Philip James Bailey

#Heart #Joy #Rooms

Imagination is the air of mind.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Air #Imagination #Mind

It matters not how long we live but how.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Life #Long #Age

Error is worse than ignorance.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Ignorance #Errors

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.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Eye #Tired #Looks

Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Dream #States

I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts, Each one of which down hurls me to the ground.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Running #Doubt

True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Faith #Uplifting #Eye

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.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Stars #Air #Shining

Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Future

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

#Fate #Soul #Thrones

If all were rich, gold would be penniless.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Gold #Would Be #Rich

I cannot be content with less than heaven.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Heaven

Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Imperfection #Heaven

Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Acquisition #Harvest #Application

Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Joy #Bubbles

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

#Ungrateful People #Scoundrels #Obligation

When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Night #Lamps #Study

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.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Life #Gratitude #Heart

The long days are no happier than the short ones.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Long #Long Day

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

#Spring #Heart #Eye

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

#Light #Heaven #Arches

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!
-- Philip James Bailey

#Beautiful #Sunset #Bed

Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Rose #Lips #Music Life

Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Snow #Lips #Peeping

Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Night #Tears #Gone

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

#Prayer #Heart #Earth

My favoured temple is an humble heart.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Heart #Humble #Temples

I cannot be content with less than heaven; Living, and comprehensive of all life. Thee, universal heaven, celestial all; Thee, sacrjd seat of intellective time; Field of the soul 's best wisdom : home of truth , Star-throned.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Stars #Home #Heaven

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

#Disappointment #Half #Endure

He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Appreciation #Fool #Speak

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

#Lying #Flower #Men

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

#Home #Heart #Blessedness

Star canto: 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

#Stars #Names #Light

See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Heaven #Sun #Shields

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

#Eye #Heart #Tears

When pride thaws, look for floods.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Pride #Looks #Flood

Death is another life.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Death #Life Death #Another Life

The value of a thought cannot be told.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Values

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

#Crush #Two #Sorrow

The temples perish, but the God still lives.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Soul #Temples #Stills

Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Stars #Heaven #Fields

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Sympathy #Heart #Men

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

#Men #Use #Wealth

It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Views #Mountain #Spirit

Not a single path Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Path

One thought settles a life, an immortality.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Immortality #Settling

The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Wind #Breathe #Wave

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

#Art #Women #Thee

Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
-- Philip James Bailey

We live not to ourselves, our work is life.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Work

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

#Soul #World

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Wise #Pain #Suffering

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

#Power #Mind #Spirit

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

#Peace #Pain #Kindness

All things that speak of heaven speak of peace.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Peace #Heaven #Speak

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Death #Art #Littles

Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Evil #Schemes #Form

Evil then results from imperfection.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Evil #Imperfection #Results

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

#God #Soul #Dew

Let us think less of men and more of God.
-- Philip James Bailey

#God #Thinking #Men

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

#God #Soul #Earth

All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Race #Good Man #Goodness

He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Heart #Sorrow

The strongest passion which I have is honor.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Passion #Honor #Strongest

Life is as serious a thing as death.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Life #Serious #Life Is

Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Life #Mean #God Life

Life is less than nothing without love.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Love #Life Is

None but the brave and beautiful can love.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Love #Beautiful #Brave

The truth of truths is love.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Love #Truth #Truth Is

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

#Night #Forbidden Love #Silence

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Doubt #Shadow #Atheism