Quote

None but God can fill the perfect whole.

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
Fill
None
Perfect
Whole

More quotes by Philip James Bailey

Image
Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The value of a thought cannot be told.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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
Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.
Philip James Bailey
Image
And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
Philip James Bailey
Image
I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
Philip James Bailey
Image
America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The heart is its own Fate.
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
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey
Image
One thought settles a life, an immortality.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
Philip James Bailey
Image
All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
Philip James Bailey