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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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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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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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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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Evil then results from imperfection.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be. Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them, Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven. All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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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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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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The heart is its own Fate.
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