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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 heart is its own Fate.
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Nature means Necessity.
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When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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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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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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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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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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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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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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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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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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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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