Philip James Bailey Quotes
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It matters not how long we live but how.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in lifeBut needs it, and may learn.
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The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.
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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.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!
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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.
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When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.
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The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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If all were rich, gold would be penniless.
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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.
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When pride thaws, look for floods.
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Kindness is wisdom.
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It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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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.
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Who never doubted never half believedWhere doubt there truth is-'t is her shadow.
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Death is another life.
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Could I love less, I should be happier now.
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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.