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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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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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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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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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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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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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