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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
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Men

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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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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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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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