Philip James Bailey Quotes
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Kindness is wisdom.
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Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.
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Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud.
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When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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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.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in lifeBut needs it, and may learn.
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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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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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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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When pride thaws, look for floods.
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We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.
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Death is another life.
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It matters not how long we live but how.
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How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!
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The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
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Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.
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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.
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Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
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It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.
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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.
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Be cheerful and grateful for the good that you have: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
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They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.