All Philip James Bailey Quotes
- Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art. Art
- Evil and good are God's right hand and left. Evil
- It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future. Fit
- The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged. All
- How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul! Chance
- Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God. Bear
- Naught but God Can satisfy the soul. God
- Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads. Age
- 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… Act
- The ground of all great thoughts is sadness. All
- We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand. Death
- What men call accident is God's own part. Accident
- Music tells no truths. Funny
- The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts. Advice
- Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can. Authorship
- The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them. Abandon
- Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity. Comparison
- Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war. All
- The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's… All
- The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy. Dew
- England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee! Country
- 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,… Alike
- The heart is its own Fate. Fate
- Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits;… Air
- Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin. God