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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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P. J. Bailey
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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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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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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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Nature means Necessity.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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Poetry is itself a thing of God He made his prophets poets and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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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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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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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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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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