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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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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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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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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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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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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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Evil then results from imperfection.
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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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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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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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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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It matters not how long we live but how.
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