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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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Music tells no truths.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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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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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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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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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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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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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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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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