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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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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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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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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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Every believer is God's miracle.
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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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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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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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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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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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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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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 worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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