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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
Wisdom
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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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As the master so the valet.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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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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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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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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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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Evil then results from imperfection.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
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Nature means Necessity.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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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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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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