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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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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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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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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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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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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
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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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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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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.
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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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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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