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
Philip James Bailey quotes about
immortality settling
One thought settles a life, an immortality.
values
The value of a thought cannot be told.
acquisition harvest application
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
nature art men
Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.
future thinking fit
It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
time years feelings
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
memorial-day military animal
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
equality earth sole
The sole equality on earth is death.
cheating self firsts
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
love life-is without-love
Life is less than nothing without love.
mistake wind rivers
Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.
beauty beautiful men
The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.
gold would-be rich
If all were rich, gold would be penniless.
night tears gone
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.