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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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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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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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Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
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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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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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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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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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Evil then results from imperfection.
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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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We live in deeds, not years in thoughts, not breaths In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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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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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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