Philip James Bailey
Philip James Bailey
Philip James Baileywas an English Spasmodic poet, best known as the author of Festus...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 April 1816
men accidents
What men call accident is God's own part.
power use
He hath no power that hath not power to use.
art women thee
Thou art a woman, And that is saying the best and worst of thee.
life woe-unto woe-is-me
I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
life serious life-is
Life is as serious a thing as death.
home heart blessedness
Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.
wisdom stars home
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.
love thinking might
Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.
life long age
It matters not how long we live but how.
thinking self space
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.
men use influence
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
power mind spirit
We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.
god soul earth
O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!
god thinking men
Let us think less of men and more of God.