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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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P. J. Bailey
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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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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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