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We live in deeds, not years in thoughts, not breaths In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
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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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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Nature means Necessity.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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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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