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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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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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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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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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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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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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