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Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Philip James Bailey

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

Philip James Bailey

Let each man think himself an act of God,
His mind a thought, his life a breath of God;
And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds,
To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Philip James Bailey

Men might be better if we better deemed
Of them. The worst way to improve the world
Is to condemn it.

Philip James Bailey

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.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end
Beginning, mean, and end to all things,--God.

Philip James Bailey

Who never doubted never half believed
Where doubt there truth is--'t is her shadow.

Philip James Bailey

America thou half-brother of the world!
With something good and bad of every land.

Philip James Bailey

Music tells no truths.

Philip James Bailey

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths,
And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Philip James Bailey

The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.

Philip James Bailey

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.

David Bailey

The worst men often give the best advice.

Philip James Bailey

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Pearl Bailey

America! half brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land.

Philip James Bailey

Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art.

James Bailey

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

Philip James Bailey

The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

Philip James Bailey

Blessing star forth forever; but a curse Is like a cloud--it passes.

Philip James Bailey

Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

Philip James Bailey

'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

Philip James Bailey

Defining night by darkness, death by dust.

Philip James Bailey

Our similarities are different.

Philip James Bailey

The long days are no happier than the short ones.

Philip James Bailey

Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.

Philip James Bailey

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.

Philip James Bailey

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