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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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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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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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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift is all Which men need render all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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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 heart is its own Fate.
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