Top 100 Philip James Bailey Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “None but the brave and beautiful can love.”

— Philip James Bailey

52. “The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them – God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.”

— Philip James Bailey

53. “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

54. “Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins.”

— Philip James Bailey

55. “Let us think less of men and more of God.”

— Philip James Bailey

56. “The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.”

— Philip James Bailey

57. “It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.”

— Philip James Bailey

58. “He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.”

— Philip James Bailey

59. “The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.”

— Philip James Bailey

60. “It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.”

— Philip James Bailey

61. “Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.”

— Philip James Bailey

62. “As the master so the valet.”

— Philip James Bailey

63. “Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e’er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.”

— Philip James Bailey

64. “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 the dead.”

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey

66. “Love spends his all, and still hath store.”

— Philip James Bailey

67. “I cannot be content with less than heaven; Living, and comprehensive of all life. Thee, universal heaven, celestial all; Thee, sacrjd seat of intellective time; Field of the soul ’s best wisdom : home of truth, Star-throned.”

— Philip James Bailey

68. “Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.”

— Philip James Bailey

69. “All things that speak of heaven speak of peace.”

— Philip James Bailey

70. “Could I love less, I should be happier now.”

— Philip James Bailey

71. “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; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.”

— Philip James Bailey

72. “Life is as serious a thing as death.”

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey

74. “He hath no power that hath not power to use.”

— Philip James Bailey

75. “If all were rich, gold would be penniless.”

— Philip James Bailey

76. “Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.”

— Philip James Bailey

77. “We love and live in power; it is the spirit’s end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.”

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey

79. “For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.”

— Philip James Bailey

80. “See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.”

— Philip James Bailey

81. “Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God.”

— Philip James Bailey

82. “What men call accident is God’s own part.”

— Philip James Bailey

83. “We must not pluck death from the Maker’s hand.”

— Philip James Bailey

84. “One thought settles a life, an immortality.”

— Philip James Bailey

85. “Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.”

— Philip James Bailey

86. “Evil then results from imperfection.”

— Philip James Bailey

87. “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.”

— Philip James Bailey

88. “Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.”

— Philip James Bailey

89. “The strongest passion which I have is honor.”

— Philip James Bailey

90. “How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!”

— Philip James Bailey

91. “The value of a thought cannot be told.”

— Philip James Bailey

92. “We live not to ourselves, our work is life.”

— Philip James Bailey

93. “I cannot be content with less than heaven.”

— Philip James Bailey

94. “Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.”

— Philip James Bailey

95. “It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.”

— Philip James Bailey

96. “Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.”

— Philip James Bailey

97. “O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!”

— Philip James Bailey

98. “Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.”

— Philip James Bailey

99. “The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.”

— Philip James Bailey

100. “Oh, could we lift the future’s sable shroud.”

— Philip James Bailey