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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

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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Nature means Necessity.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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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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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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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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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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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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As the master so the valet.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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Evil then results from imperfection.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
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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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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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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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