Philip James Bailey
Philip James Bailey
Philip James Baileywas an English Spasmodic poet, best known as the author of Festus...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 April 1816
values
The value of a thought cannot be told.
immortality settling
One thought settles a life, an immortality.
path
Not a single path Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God.
views mountain spirit
It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.
men use influence
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.
sympathy heart men
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.
stars heaven fields
Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
soul temples stills
The temples perish, but the God still lives.
death art littles
Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.
death life-death another-life
Death is another life.
stars images-of-love
Surely the stars are images of love.
disappointment half endure
There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
wisdom stars home
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.
night lamps study
When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.