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
soul world
The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.
stars night sorrow
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
eye heart tears
Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
men thinking kind-deeds
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
respect giving ethics
Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
art god nature
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
life wise-love should
Could I love less, I should be happier now.
sweet stars joy
The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
life gratitude heart
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
men giving advice
The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
light heaven arches
The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
war greatness two
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.
men might ifs
Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
love truth truth-is
The truth of truths is love.