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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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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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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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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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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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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.
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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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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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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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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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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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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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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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Every believer is God's miracle.
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