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
spring heart eye
It is sad To see the light of beauty wane away, Know eyes are dimming, bosoms shrivelling, feet Losing their springs, and limbs their lily roundness; But it is worse to feel the heart-spring gone, To lose hope, care not for the coming thing, And feel all things go to decay within us.
kindness needs may
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
nature seems courses
The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
spring self light
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.
motivational art simplicity
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
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.
love-is sea poet
A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.
electricity all-things
Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
disappointment half endure
There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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.