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Music tells no truths.

Philip James Bailey

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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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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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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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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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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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Nature means Necessity.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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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 course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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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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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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