Philip James Bailey Quotes
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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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The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
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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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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.
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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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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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If all were rich, gold would be penniless.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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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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Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.
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Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.
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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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See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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What men call accident is God's own part.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.
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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.