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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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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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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
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Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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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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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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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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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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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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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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The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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Music tells no truths.
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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