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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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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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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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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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