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It matters not how long we live but how.

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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We live in deeds, not years in thoughts, not breaths In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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Man is one and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs thus are we men.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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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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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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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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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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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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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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