We live in deeds, not years:
In thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in 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
Topics: Achievement, Life, Time Management, Action, Character, General
Morn, like a maiden glancing o’er her pearls, streamed o’er the manna-dew, as though the ground were sown with starseed.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Morning
The worst men often give the best advice.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Advice
There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Self-Knowledge, Awareness
The stars, Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields Of heaven.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Stars
Joys are bubble-like; what makes them bursts them too.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Joy
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Sorrow, Suffering
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Success & Failure
Imagination is the air of mind.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Imagination
Art is a man’s nature; nature is God’s art.
—Philip James Bailey
Kindness is wisdom.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Kindness
The sole equality on earth is death.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: One liners, Equality
Surely the stars are images of love.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Stars
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is—it is her shadow.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Doubt
I love night more than day—she is so lovely; But I love night the most because she brings My love to me in dreams which scarcely lie.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Night
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: America
Walk boldly and wisely… There is a hand above that will help you on.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Divinity, Faith, God
Art is man’s nature: Nature is God’s art.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Nature
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Prayer
Simplicity is nature’s first step, and the last of art.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Simplicity
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self. All sin is easy after that.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Deceit, Cheating, Corruption
There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Eyes
Our similarities are different.
—Philip James Bailey
Great thoughts, like great deeds, need no trumpet.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Greatness, One liners, Thoughts
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- A. E. Housman English Scholar, Poet
- Francis Thompson English Poet
- Edmund Spenser English Poet
- Philip Larkin English Poet
- Percy Bysshe Shelley English Poet
- Anne Bradstreet American Poet
- Edwin Arnold English Poet
- John Webster English Dramatist
- Hartley Coleridge British Poet
- John Gay English Poet, Dramatist
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