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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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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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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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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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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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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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Evil then results from imperfection.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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Music tells no truths.
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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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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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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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