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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
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Poet
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P. J. Bailey
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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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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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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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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As the master so the valet.
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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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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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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Every believer is God's miracle.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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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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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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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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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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