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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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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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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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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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