Philip James Bailey Quotes
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in lifeBut needs it, and may learn.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites.
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How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!
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It matters not how long we live but how.
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Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.
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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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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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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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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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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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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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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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Who never doubted never half believedWhere doubt there truth is-'t is her shadow.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
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When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.
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When pride thaws, look for floods.
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If all were rich, gold would be penniless.
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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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Any heart turned God ward feels more joy In one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised By all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
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What men call accident is God's own part.
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Kindness is wisdom.