Quote

One thought settles a life, an immortality.

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
Settles
Settling
Immortality
Thought
Life

More quotes by Philip James Bailey

Image
I cannot be content with less than heaven.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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
Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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
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
The value of a thought cannot be told.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Evil then results from imperfection.
Philip James Bailey
Image
All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The heart is its own Fate.
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