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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Philip James Bailey
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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
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P. J. Bailey
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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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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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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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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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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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It matters not how long we live but how.
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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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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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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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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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