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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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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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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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Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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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 dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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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.
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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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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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