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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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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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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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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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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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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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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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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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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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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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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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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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The heart is its own Fate.
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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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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be. Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them, Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven. All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.
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Nature means Necessity.
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Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
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