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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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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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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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The sole equality on earth is death.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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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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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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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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