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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

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
Hell
Evil
Bearable
Nothingness

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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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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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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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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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Music tells no truths.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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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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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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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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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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As the master so the valet.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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