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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

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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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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Every believer is God's miracle.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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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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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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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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Music tells no truths.
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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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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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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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