Quote

Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.

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
Cannot
Form
Scheme
Schemes
Limited
Universal
Evil

More quotes by Philip James Bailey

Image
A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Life is as serious a thing as death.
Philip James Bailey
Image
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
Image
The strongest passion which I have is honor.
Philip James Bailey
Image
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
Philip James Bailey
Image
It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
Philip James Bailey
Image
America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
Philip James Bailey
Image
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
Image
Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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
One thought settles a life, an immortality.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The heart is its own Fate.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Poetry is itself a thing of God He made his prophets poets and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.
Philip James Bailey