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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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When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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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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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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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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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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Evil then results from imperfection.
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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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Music tells no truths.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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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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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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