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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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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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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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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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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 value of a thought cannot be told.
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True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift is all Which men need render all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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The heart is its own Fate.
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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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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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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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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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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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