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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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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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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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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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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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As the master so the valet.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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It matters not how long we live but how.
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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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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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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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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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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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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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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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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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