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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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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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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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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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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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The heart is its own Fate.
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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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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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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