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The sole equality on earth is death.

Philip James Bailey

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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
Author
Poet
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P. J. Bailey
Sole
Equality
Death
Earth

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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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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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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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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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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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