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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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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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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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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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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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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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Music tells no truths.
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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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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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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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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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