Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
Love
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Quotes by Philip James Bailey
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Kindness is wisdom.
Wisdom
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.
Love
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.
Life
Imagination is the air of mind.
Wisdom
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Truth
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Wisdom
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
Wisdom
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Wisdom
The long days are no happier than the short ones.
Wisdom
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
Life
The sole equality on earth is death.
Life
What men call accident is God's own part.
Wisdom
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
Wisdom
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Wisdom
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
Love
Music tells no truths.
Truth