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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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P. J. Bailey
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Men

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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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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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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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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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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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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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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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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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