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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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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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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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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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It matters not how long we live but how.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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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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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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As the master so the valet.
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