Philip James Bailey Quotes
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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Love spends his all, and still hath store.
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Doubt is the shadow of truth.
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As the master so the valet.
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Nature means Necessity.
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Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.
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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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Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts.
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He hath no power that hath not power to use.
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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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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.
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I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more, As look upon it with an empty eye. I would this world were over. I am tired.
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Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.
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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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The heart is its own Fate.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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None but the brave and beautiful can love.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.
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Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sun what is light; Ask what is darkness of the night; Ask sin of what may be forgiven; Ask what is happiness of heaven; Ask what is folly of the crowd; Ask what is fashion of the shroud; Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss; Ask of thyself what beauty is.
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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.