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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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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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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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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 heart is its own Fate.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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