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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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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Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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As the master so the valet.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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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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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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Man is one and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs thus are we men.
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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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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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