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Philip James Bailey Inspirational Quotes (76)

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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.
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Every believer is God's miracle.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
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Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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We live in deeds, not years in thoughts, not breaths In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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