Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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
Heaven
Dewdrops
Thick
Field
Fields
Stand
Stars
More quotes by Philip James Bailey
Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
Philip James Bailey
Every believer is God's miracle.
Philip James Bailey
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
Philip James Bailey
One thought settles a life, an immortality.
Philip James Bailey
And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
Philip James Bailey
It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
Philip James Bailey
Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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 dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
Philip James Bailey
Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
Philip James Bailey
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
Philip James Bailey
Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
Philip James Bailey
Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
Philip James Bailey
The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Philip James Bailey
Imagination is the air of mind.
Philip James Bailey
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