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As the master so the valet.

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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P. J. Bailey
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Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.
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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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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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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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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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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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The heart is its own Fate.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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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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