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The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
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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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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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be. Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them, Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven. All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.
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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 wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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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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Man is one and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs thus are we men.
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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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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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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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