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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.

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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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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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Music tells no truths.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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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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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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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 wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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Every believer is God's miracle.
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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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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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