Philip James Bailey Quotes - Page 5

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.

Love spends his all, and still hath store.

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.

Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.

Life is as serious a thing as death.

Could I love less, I should be happier now.

The temples perish, but the God still lives.

Thou art a woman, And that is saying the best and worst of thee.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

The value of a thought cannot be told.

One thought settles a life, an immortality.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Life hath more awe than death.

None but God can fill the perfect whole.

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.

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

Blessings star forth forever; but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.

All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.

We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.

Music tells no truths.

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.

True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.

He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.