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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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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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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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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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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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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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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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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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Evil then results from imperfection.
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Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
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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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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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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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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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