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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
Author
Poet
Writer
P. J. Bailey
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Truths

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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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As the master so the valet.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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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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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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Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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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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The sole equality on earth is death.
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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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