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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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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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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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Evil then results from imperfection.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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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 worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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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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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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Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
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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 wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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