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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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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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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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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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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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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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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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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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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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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We live in deeds, not years in thoughts, not breaths In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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Music tells no truths.
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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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As the master so the valet.
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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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