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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 love as I have loved, And yet I know not why It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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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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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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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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Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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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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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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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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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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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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