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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

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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P. J. Bailey
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Skies
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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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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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
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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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Music tells no truths.
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The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
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Nature means Necessity.
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Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
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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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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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Evil then results from imperfection.
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The heart is its own Fate.
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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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