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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
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P. J. Bailey
Fate
Heart

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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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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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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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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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Every believer is God's miracle.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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As the master so the valet.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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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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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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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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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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