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Philip James Bailey
April 22, 1816 - September 6, 1902
Nationality: English
Category: Poet
Subcategory: English Poet

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

   

The sole equality on earth is death.

   

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

    Topics: Love

The long days are no happier than the short ones.

   

What men call accident is God's own part.

   

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

   

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

   

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

   

Imagination is the air of mind.

   

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

    Topics: Love

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

   

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.

   

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

   

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

   

Music tells no truths.

   

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

   

Kindness is wisdom.

   

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