27 Philip James Bailey Quotes

Philip James Bailey quotes

1. The worst men often give the best advice.

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2. They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

3. I cannot be content with less than heaven.

4. Kindness is wisdom.

5. Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from hell.

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

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

8. 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.

9. America, thou half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land.

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

2. When pride thaws, look for floods.

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

4. 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.

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

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

7. None but God can fill the perfect whole.

8. The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.

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

10. My favoured temple is an humble heart.

11. 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.

12. The sole equality on earth is death.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

17. Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

18. Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.