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Philip James Bailey Inspirational Quotes (76)

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Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be. Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them, Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven. All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.
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As the master so the valet.
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Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.
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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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Nature means Necessity.
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Music tells no truths.
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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift is all Which men need render all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
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Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
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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.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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Poetry is itself a thing of God He made his prophets poets and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.
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