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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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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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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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As the master so the valet.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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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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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but 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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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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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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The heart is its own Fate.
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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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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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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.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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