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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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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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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.
Philip James Bailey
For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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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.
Philip James Bailey
Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
Philip James Bailey
Life is as serious a thing as death.
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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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We live in deeds, not years in thoughts, not breaths In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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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.
Philip James Bailey
When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
Philip James Bailey
It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
Philip James Bailey
Evil then results from imperfection.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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