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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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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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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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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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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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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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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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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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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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Evil then results from imperfection.
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