Philip James Bailey Quotes

Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.

The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.

Blessings star forth forever; but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

The sole equality on earth is death.

Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.

Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.

Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God.

None but the brave and beautiful can love.

The value of a thought cannot be told.

He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.

Life is less than nothing without love.

It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Love spends his all, and still hath store.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Error is worse than ignorance.

The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

The truth of truths is love.

Life is as serious a thing as death.

Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins.

Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud.

We live not to ourselves, our work is life.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.

Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.

Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.