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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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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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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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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
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Music tells no truths.
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Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.
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The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be. Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them, Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven. All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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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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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
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