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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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Poet
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P. J. Bailey
Kindness
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Wisdom
Learn
May
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Life

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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.
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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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Evil then results from imperfection.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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The heart is its own Fate.
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