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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.
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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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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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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Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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