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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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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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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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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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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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The heart is its own Fate.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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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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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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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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As the master so the valet.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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Music tells no truths.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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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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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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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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Evil then results from imperfection.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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