Quote

The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

Philip James Bailey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
Author
Poet
Writer
P. J. Bailey
Thing
Substantial
Nothingness
Courses
Course
Death
Nature
Seems
Whole

More quotes by Philip James Bailey

Image
Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
Philip James Bailey
Image
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.
Philip James Bailey
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Imagination is the air of mind.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Life is as serious a thing as death.
Philip James Bailey
Image
None but God can fill the perfect whole.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
Philip James Bailey
Image
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Philip James Bailey
Image
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
Image
Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Every believer is God's miracle.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The strongest passion which I have is honor.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The sole equality on earth is death.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
Philip James Bailey