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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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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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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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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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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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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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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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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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