Inspirational Quotes by Gamaliel Bailey (American Journalist)

Inspirational Quotations by Gamaliel Bailey (American Journalist)

Gamaliel Bailey (1807–59) was an American physician and journalist. He left his vocation as a physician to become an abolitionist journalist and a leader of the abolition movement before the American Civil War.

Born in Mount Holly, New Jersey, Bailey graduated from the Jefferson Medical College-Philadelphia. He taught physiology at the Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio; there, attending the Lane Debates on Slavery stirred him to become an ardent abolitionist. He left his career to become an abolitionist, journalist, editor, and publisher, working primarily in Cincinnati, and Washington, D.C.

Bailey edited The National Era, established by the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Its circulation and political and moral influence attracted such contributors as Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Theodore Parker. Bailey published Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin as a serial in 1851–52 in The National Era.

South Carolina State University’s Stanley Harrold wrote Gamaliel Bailey and Antislavery Union (1986.)

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Amid life’s quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Goodness

The death-bed of a clay, how beautiful!
—Gamaliel Bailey

What men call accident is the doing of God’s providence.
—Gamaliel Bailey

Any heart turned Godward, feels more joy in one short hour of prayer, than e’er was raised by all the feasts on earth since its foundation.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Prayer

They who forgive most, shall be most forgiven.
—Gamaliel Bailey

The name of Christ—the one great word—well worth all languages in earth or heaven.
—Gamaliel Bailey

There is nothing on earth worth being known but God and our own souls.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: God

Keep thy spirit pure from worldly taint by the repellent strength of virtue.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Virtue

Kindness is wisdom; there is none in life but needs it, and may learn.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Kindness

Poets are all who love and feel great truths, and tell them.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Poetry

Grief hallows hearts even while it ages heads.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Grief

The best enjoyment is half disappointment to what we intend or would have in this world.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Disappointment

Men might be better if we deemed better of them.—The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.
—Gamaliel Bailey

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another, without helping himself.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Helping, Goodwill, General, Happiness, Generosity, Helpfulness, Love, Sin, Purpose, Kindness, Try, Life, Help, Service

The firefly only shines when on the wing; so it is with the mind; when we rest we darken.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Mind, Action

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Riches

Both man and womankind belie their nature when they are not kind.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Sex, Kindness

As nightingales feed on glow worms, so poets live upon the living light of nature and beauty.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Poetry

Poetry is itself a thing of God.—He made his prophets poets; and the more we feel of poesie do we become like God in love and power.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Poetry

It is sad to think how few our pleasures really are, and for which we risk eternal good.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Pleasure

Walk boldly and wisely in the light thou hast; there is a hand above will help thee on.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Light

Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest we must sow the seed.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Industry

Earth’s liquid jewelry, wrought of the air.
—Gamaliel Bailey

The sun-god’s crest upon his azure shield, the heavens.
—Gamaliel Bailey

Dew-drops—nature’s tears, which she sheds on 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.
—Gamaliel Bailey

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Envy

Thou wind! which art the unseen similitude of God the Spirit, his most sweet and mightiest sign.
—Gamaliel Bailey

Let each man think himself an act of God; his mind a thought, his life a breath of God.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Man

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Stars

Every believer is God’s miracle.
—Gamaliel Bailey
Topics: Miracles