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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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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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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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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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Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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Evil then results from imperfection.
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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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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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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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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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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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