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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
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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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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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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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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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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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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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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The sole equality on earth is death.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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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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Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
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