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
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kindness needs may
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
ungrateful-people scoundrels obligation
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.
electricity all-things
Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
sympathy heart men
Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.
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.
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.
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.
gold would-be rich
If all were rich, gold would be penniless.