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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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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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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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Imagination is the air of mind.
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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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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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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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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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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.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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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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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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