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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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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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Evil then results from imperfection.
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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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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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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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Nature means Necessity.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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