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Imagination is the air of mind.

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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P. J. Bailey
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Imagination
Mind

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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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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 goodness of the heart is shown in deeds Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be. Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them, Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven. All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.
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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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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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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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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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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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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.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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As the master so the valet.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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