Philip James Bailey: Quotes about life

Philip James Bailey was British writer and poet. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“I cannot be content with less than heaven;
Living, and comprehensive of all life.”

Philip James Bailey Festus

Festus (1839)
Context: I cannot be content with less than heaven;
Living, and comprehensive of all life.
Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;
Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;
Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,
Star-throned.

Life

“Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life
But needs it, and may learn.”

Philip James Bailey Festus

Festus (1839)

Life , Wisdom , Learning

“While men are what they are; while they have bad
Passions to be roused up: while ruled by men;
While all the powers and treasures of a land
At beck of the ambitious, wrongs may be
Offered, with insult; yea, while rights are worth
Maintaining; freedom keeping, or life having,
So long dread I, the sword shall shine.”

Philip James Bailey Festus

Festus (1839)

Life , Men , Freedom , Passion

“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 Festus

Proem
Festus (1839)

Life , God , Thinking