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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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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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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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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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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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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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As the master so the valet.
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The heart is its own Fate.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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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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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 sole equality on earth is death.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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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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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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