Best Philip James Bailey Sayings
- As the master so the valet. Hero
- For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay. Climbs
- And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep. Beauty
- Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn. Inspirational
- Men might be better if we better deemed of them. Better
- Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now… Common
- The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing. Course
- Nature means Necessity. Inspirational
- Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us. All
- Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in. Came
- Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale… Cold
- For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light. Feed
- 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,… All
- A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure. Figure
- He hath no power that hath not power to use. Hath
- What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies? God
- Surely the stars are images of love. Funny
- When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study. Hath
- See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens. Azure
- See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss. Across
- The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven. Arch
- The death-bed of a day, how beautiful! Beautiful
- It matters not how long we live but how. Age
- Life hath more awe than death. Awe
- Could I love less, I should be happier now. Happier
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