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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.
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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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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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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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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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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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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The sole equality on earth is death.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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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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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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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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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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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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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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The heart is its own Fate.
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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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