Philip James Bailey
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.Collection: Ungrateful People
Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.Collection: Doubt
The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.Collection: Sadness
Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.Collection: Fate
The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.Collection: Men
Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.Collection: Electricity
Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.Collection: Stars
Surely the stars are images of love.Collection: Stars
Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.Collection: Crush
The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.Collection: Hero
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.Collection: Sweet
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.Collection: Light
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.Collection: Kindness
It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.Collection: Views
For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.Collection: Ivy
The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's Larger than this we leave, and lovelier. And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect, The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves. The will of God is all in all. He makes, Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.Collection: Death
See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.Collection: Heaven
If all were rich, gold would be penniless.Collection: Gold
The heart is its own Fate.Collection: Heart
We live not to ourselves, our work is life.Collection: Work
Hell is more bearable than nothingness.Collection: Evil
Nature means Necessity.Collection: Nature
The strongest passion which I have is honor.Collection: Passion
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.Collection: Wisdom
When pride thaws, look for floods.Collection: Pride
The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.Collection: Wise
Doubt is the shadow of truth.Collection: Doubt
Men might be better if we better deemed of them.Collection: Men
I cannot be content with less than heaven.Collection: Heaven
Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.Collection: Inspiration
Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.Collection: Sorrow
Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.Collection: Night
Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.Collection: Stars
The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.Collection: Light
See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.Collection: Sunshine
When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.Collection: Night
The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.Collection: Nature
The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.Collection: Beauty
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.Collection: Writing
A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.Collection: Love Is
The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.Collection: Sweet
England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!Collection: Country
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.Collection: Spring