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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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Evil then results from imperfection.
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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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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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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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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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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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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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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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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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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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