Philip James Bailey Quotes
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.
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Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.
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Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race. He has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but a creation of his imagination: still it is a great advance for a man to be profoundly loving even in his imaginations.
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Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.
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The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
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It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.
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All things that speak of heaven speak of peace.
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The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.
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Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.
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The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!
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A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven; Living, and comprehensive of all life. Thee, universal heaven, celestial all; Thee, sacrjd seat of intellective time; Field of the soul 's best wisdom : home of truth , Star-throned.
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When I forget that the stars shine in air – When I forget that beauty is in stars – When I forget that love with beauty is – Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
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Error is worse than ignorance.