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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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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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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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We live in deeds, not years in thoughts, not breaths In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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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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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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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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