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Philip James Bailey
English
Poet
About the author
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Philip James Bailey,
English
Poet
#Time
#Years
#Heart
#Thoughts
#Deeds
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
Philip James Bailey,
English
Poet
#World
#America
#Land
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
Philip James Bailey,
English
Poet
#Love
#Truth
#Poets
Music tells no truths.
Philip James Bailey,
English
Poet
#Music
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Philip James Bailey,
English
Poet
#Man
#Military
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
Philip James Bailey,
English
Poet
#Life
#God
#Thought
#Man
#Act
#Mind
#Thoughts
#Heaven
#Deeds
Kindness is wisdom.
Philip James Bailey,
English
Poet
#Wisdom
#Kindness
Imagination is the air of mind.
Philip James Bailey,
English
Poet
#Imagination
#Mind
The long days are no happier than the short ones.
Philip James Bailey,
English
Poet
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
Philip James Bailey,
English
Poet
#God
#Art
#Man
#Nature
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Philip James Bailey,
English
Poet
#Excellence
#Absence
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey,
English
Poet
#Spirit
#Truth
#Prayer
What men call accident is God's own part.
Philip James Bailey,
English
Poet
#God
#Men
#Accident
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Philip James Bailey,
English
Poet
#Art
#First
#Simplicity
Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
Philip James Bailey,
English
Poet
#Love
#Respect
The sole equality on earth is death.
Philip James Bailey,
English
Poet
#Death
#Earth
#Equality
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
Philip James Bailey,
English
Poet
#Hell
#Envy