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Every believer is God's miracle.

Philip James Bailey

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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
Author
Poet
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P. J. Bailey
Miracle
Every
Believer

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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 sole equality on earth is death.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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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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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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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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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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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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As the master so the valet.
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The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be. Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them, Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven. All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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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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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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