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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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 us think less of men and more of God.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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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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As the master so the valet.
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Music tells no truths.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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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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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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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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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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The heart is its own Fate.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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