| 76 Famous Quotes by Philip James Bailey
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“A poet not in love is out at sea;
He must have a lay-figure.”
Poets Quotes Source: Festus (sc. Home)
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“Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear
Glean after what it can.”
Authorship Quotes Source: Festus (sc. Home)
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“Worthy books
Are not companions--they are solitudes:
We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.”
Books Quotes Source: Festus (sc. A Village Feast, Evening)
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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 Source: Festus (sc. Water and Wood Midnight)
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“What are ye orbs?
The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?”
Stars Quotes Source: Festus (sc. Everywhere)
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“Surely the stars are images of love.”
Stars Quotes Source: Festus (sc. Garden and Bower by the Sea)
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“The stars,
Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields
Of heaven.”
Stars Quotes Source: Festus (sc. Heaven)
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“Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.”
Prayer Quotes Source: Festus (sc. Elsewhere)
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“America! half brother of the world!
With something good and bad of every land.”
America Quotes Source: Festus (sc. The Surface, l. 340)
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“The hero is the world-man, in whose heart
One passion stands for all, the most indulged.”
Heroes Quotes Source: Festus--Proem (l. 114)
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“As the master so the valet. (Like master, like man.)
[Fr., Fel maltre, tel valet.]”
Heroes Quotes Source: Festus--Proem (l. 114)
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“The heart is its own Fate.”
Fate Quotes Source: Festus (sc. Wood and Water, Sunset)
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“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.”
Errors Quotes Source: Festus (sc. A Mountain Sunrise)
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“The course of Nature seems a course of Death,
And nothingness the whole substantial thing.”
Nature Quotes Source: Festus (sc. Water and Wood)
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“Nature means Necessity.”
Nature Quotes Source: Festus--Dedication
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“Music tells no truths.”
Music Quotes Source: Festus (sc. A Village Feast)
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“Burn to be great,
Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.
The plains are everlasting as the hills,
The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else
Comes on the mind with the like shock as though
Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.”
Greatness Quotes Source: Festus (sc. Home)
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“Hell is more bearable than nothingness.”
Hell Quotes Source: Festus (sc. Heaven)
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“Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.”
Hell Quotes Source: Festus (sc. Hell, l. 194)
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“Both man and womankind belie their nature
When they are not kind.”
Kindness Quotes Source: Festus (sc. Home)
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“Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life
But needs it and may learn.”
Kindness Quotes Source: Festus (sc. Home)
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“He hath no power that hath not power to use.”
Power Quotes Source: Festus (sc. A Visit)
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“Lowliness is the base of every virtue,
And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.”
Humility Quotes Source: Festus (sc. Home)
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“Faith is a higher faculty than reason.”
Faith Quotes Source: Festus--Proem (l. 84)
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“Joys
Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.
- Philip James Bailey, Festus”
Joy Quotes Source: Festus (sc. A Library and Balcony--A Summer Night, l. 62)
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