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Philip James Bailey
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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
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More quotes by Philip James Bailey
The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
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
I cannot be content with less than heaven.
Philip James Bailey
The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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
Evil then results from imperfection.
Philip James Bailey
Every believer is God's miracle.
Philip James Bailey
Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
Philip James Bailey
We live in deeds, not years in thoughts, not breaths In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
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
And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
Philip James Bailey
Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
Philip James Bailey
America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
Philip James Bailey
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
Philip James Bailey
Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
Philip James Bailey
He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
Philip James Bailey
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
Philip James Bailey
A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
Philip James Bailey
It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
Philip James Bailey
Let us think less of men and more of God.
Philip James Bailey