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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

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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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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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 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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As the master so the valet.
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The heart is its own Fate.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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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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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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Man is one and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs thus are we men.
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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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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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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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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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