Quote

Let us think less of men and more of God.

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
God
Less
Men
Think
Thinking

More quotes by Philip James Bailey

Image
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
Philip James Bailey
Image
My favoured temple is an humble heart.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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
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
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
What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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
I have a heart with room for every joy .
Philip James Bailey
Image
The strongest passion which I have is honor.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
Philip James Bailey
Image
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
Image
America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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
He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Life is as serious a thing as death.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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