76 Famous Quotes by Philip James Bailey
4/22/1816 - 9/6/1902
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About Philip James Bailey
Philip James Bailey, English spasmodic poet, author of Festus, was born at Nottingham.
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The beautiful are never desolate;
But some one alway loves them--God or man.
If man abandons, God himself takes them.
Beauty
Quotes, by Philip James Bailey , Source: Festus (sc. Water and Wood Midnight)
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
Love
Quotes, by Philip James Bailey , Source: Festus (sc. Garden and Bower by the Sea)
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There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes,
Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.
Eyes
Quotes, by Philip James Bailey , Source: Festus (sc. A Drawing Room)
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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,--under-makers.
Poetry
Quotes, by Philip James Bailey , Source: Festus (Proem, l. 5)
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Death is the universal salt of states;
Blood is the base of all things--law and war.
Death
Quotes, by Philip James Bailey , Source: Festus (sc. A Country Town)
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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.
Death
Quotes, by Philip James Bailey , Source: Festus (sc. Home)
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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.
Night
Quotes, by Philip James Bailey , Source: Festus (sc. Garden and Bower by the Sea)
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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.
Night
Quotes, by Philip James Bailey , Source: Festus (sc. Water and Wood--Midnight)
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Ask not of me, love, what is love?
Ask what is good of God above;
Ask of the great sum what is light;
Ask what is darkness of the night;
Ask sin of what may be forgiven;
Ask what is happiness of heaven;
Ask what is folly of the crowd;
Ask what is fashion of the shroud;
Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;
Ask of thyself what beauty is.
Love
Quotes, by Philip James Bailey , Source: Festus (sc. A Party and Entertainment)
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I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one great woe of life
To feel all feeling die.
Love
Quotes, by Philip James Bailey , Source: Festus (sc. A Party and Entertainment)
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Let each man think himself an act of God.
His mind a thought, his life a breath of God.
Man
Quotes, by Philip James Bailey , Source: Festus--Proem (l. 162)
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'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration
Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains
The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.
Comparisons
Quotes, by Philip James Bailey , Source: Festus (sc. A Ruined Temple)
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Leave the poor
Some time for self-improvement. Let them not
Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms
For bread, but have some space to think and feel
Like moral and immortal creatures.
Poverty
Quotes, by Philip James Bailey , Source: Festus (sc. A Country Town)
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Earth took her shining station as a star,
In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
World
Quotes, by Philip James Bailey , Source: Festus (sc. The Centre)
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