Philip James Bailey Quotes
- America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
- Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
- Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
- Imagination is the air of mind.
- Kindness is wisdom.
- 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.
- Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
- Music tells no truths.
- Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
- Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
- Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
- Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
- The long days are no happier than the short ones.
- The sole equality on earth is death.
- There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
- 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.
- What men call accident is God's own part.
- The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
- The worst men often give the best advice.
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Philip James Bailey Quotes, Festus (sc. The Surface, l. 340)
- Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
Philip James Bailey Quotes, Festus (sc. Home)
- The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.
Philip James Bailey Quotes, Festus (sc. Water and Wood Midnight)
- Blessing star forth forever; but a curse Is like a cloud--it passes.
Philip James Bailey Quotes,Festus (sc. Hades)
- Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
Philip James Bailey Quotes, Festus (sc. A Village Feast, Evening)
- 'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.
Philip James Bailey Quotes, Festus (sc. A Ruined Temple
- Defining night by darkness, death by dust.
Philip James Bailey Quotes, Festus (sc. Water and Wood)
- Our similarities are different.
Philip James Bailey Quotes, Festus (sc. Water and Wood)
- The long days are no happier than the short ones.
Philip James Bailey Quotes, Festus (sc. A Village Feast, Evening)
- Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.
Philip James Bailey Quotes, Festus (sc. A Country Town
- 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 Quotes, Festus (sc. Home)
- The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
Philip James Bailey Quotes, Festus (sc. Another and a Better World)
- 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 Quotes, Festus (sc. Water and Wood--Midnight)
- Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow.
Philip James Bailey Quotes, Festus (sc. A Country Town
- Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.
Philip James Bailey Quotes
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Philip James Bailey Quotes, Festus (sc. The Surface, l. 376)
- 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 Quotes, Festus (sc. A Mountain Sunrise
- Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
Philip James Bailey Quotes, Prelude to Festus
- There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the
Philip James Bailey Quotes, Festus (sc. A Drawing Room)
- Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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