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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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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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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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Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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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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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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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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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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