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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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Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
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Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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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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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.
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