Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Philip James Bailey
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
Author
Poet
Writer
P. J. Bailey
Cold
Surer
Quality
Reception
Moral
Qualities
Excellence
Absence
Mark
Intellectual
Highest
More quotes by Philip James Bailey
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
Philip James Bailey
The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
Philip James Bailey
The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
Philip James Bailey
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.
Philip James Bailey
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
Philip James Bailey
Let us think less of men and more of God.
Philip James Bailey
Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
Philip James Bailey
True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift is all Which men need render all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
Philip James Bailey
Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
Philip James Bailey
Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
Philip James Bailey
Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
Philip James Bailey
Life is as serious a thing as death.
Philip James Bailey
Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
Philip James Bailey
The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be. Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them, Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven. All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.
Philip James Bailey
The strongest passion which I have is honor.
Philip James Bailey
When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
Philip James Bailey
One thought settles a life, an immortality.
Philip James Bailey
Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
Philip James Bailey
Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.
Philip James Bailey
Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
Philip James Bailey