Inspirational Quotes by Philip James Bailey (English Poet)

Inspirational Quotations by Philip James Bailey (English Poet)

Philip James Bailey (1816–1902) was an English poet. He was famous for Festus (1839,) a version of the Faust legend. First published anonymously, it comprised 50 scenes in 22,000 lines of blank-verse dialogue.

Born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Bailey was the son of the owner-publisher of the Nottingham Mercury. Bailey attended the University of Glasgow but did not graduate. He moved to London in 1835 and entered Lincoln’s Inn, but did not practice law earnestly. He settled at Old Basford near Nottingham.

Bailey was associated with the Spasmodic school-poets who, inspired by Romantic ideas of association and intuition, rejected literary form’s restraint.

Bailey’s voluminous poem Festus was first published anonymously in 1839 and then expanded with a second edition in 1845. He also wrote The Angel World (1850,) The Mystic (1855,) The Age (1858,) and The Universal Hymn (1867.)

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Art is a man’s nature; nature is God’s art.
—Philip James Bailey

Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Suffering, Sorrow

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 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

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

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: Character, General, Time Management, Achievement, Life, Action

Art is man’s nature: Nature is God’s art.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Nature

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: America

Joys are bubble-like; what makes them bursts them too.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Joy

Walk boldly and wisely… There is a hand above that will help you on.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Divinity, Faith, God

Simplicity is nature’s first step, and the last of art.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Simplicity

The sole equality on earth is death.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: One liners, Equality

Our similarities are different.
—Philip James Bailey

Imagination is the air of mind.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Imagination

The stars, Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields Of heaven.
—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

There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Eyes

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Prayer

Surely the stars are images of love.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Stars

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

Great thoughts, like great deeds, need no trumpet.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Greatness, One liners, Thoughts

Kindness is wisdom.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Kindness

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
—Philip James Bailey
Topics: Success & Failure