James Bailey
James Bailey
James Anthony Bailey, born James Anthony McGinnis, was an American circus ringmaster...
ProfessionOther
Date of Birth4 July 1847
CityDetroit, MI
heaven
I cannot be content with less than heaven.
running doubt gauntlet
I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts, Each one of which down hurls me to the ground.
beauty beautiful men
The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.
men giving advice
The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
writing heart mind
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
book solitude care
Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
light poet worms
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
men accidents
What men call accident is God's own part.
inspiration night light
Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.
death war blood
Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.
night shadow
Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.
electricity all-things
Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
nature mean
Nature means Necessity.
nature seems courses
The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.