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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.

Philip James Bailey

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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
Author
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P. J. Bailey
Might
Men
Deemed
Better

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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
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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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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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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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