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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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Heart
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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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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Evil then results from imperfection.
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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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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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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As the master so the valet.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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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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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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