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The heart is its own Fate.

Philip James Bailey

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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
Author
Poet
Writer
P. J. Bailey
Fate
Heart

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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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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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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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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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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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Every believer is God's miracle.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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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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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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