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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
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P. J. Bailey
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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As the master so the valet.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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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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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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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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Imagination is the air of mind.
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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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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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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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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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