Philip James Bailey Quotes
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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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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Could I love less, I should be happier now.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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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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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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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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It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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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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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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He hath no power that hath not power to use.
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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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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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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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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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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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True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
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Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.
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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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See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.
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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.