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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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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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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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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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Man is one and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs thus are we men.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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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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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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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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Poetry is itself a thing of God He made his prophets poets and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.
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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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Nature means Necessity.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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