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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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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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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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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 dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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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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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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Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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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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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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True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift is all Which men need render all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
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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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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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