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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.
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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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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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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Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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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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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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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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Music tells no truths.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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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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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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