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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
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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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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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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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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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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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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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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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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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It matters not how long we live but how.
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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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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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Nature means Necessity.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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