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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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Truth
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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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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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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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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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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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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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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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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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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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