Philip James Bailey Quotes

Let us think less of men and more of God.

Death is another life.

All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.

One thought settles a life, an immortality.

It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

The temples perish, but the God still lives.

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.

Evil then results from imperfection.

Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.

We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.

The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.

When pride thaws, look for floods.

Imagination is the air of mind.

None but God can fill the perfect whole.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

It matters not how long we live but how.

All things that speak of heaven speak of peace.

We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.

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.

If all were rich, gold would be penniless.

Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts.

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.

The long days are no happier than the short ones.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

Doubt is the shadow of truth.

Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.

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.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Could I love less, I should be happier now.

The strongest passion which I have is honor.

He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.

Music tells no truths.

Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.

Life hath more awe than death.

What men call accident is God's own part.

Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.

Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

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.

I cannot be content with less than heaven.

Every believer is God's miracle.

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!

O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!