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Nature means Necessity.

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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Necessity
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Nature

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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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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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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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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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Music tells no truths.
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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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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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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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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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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