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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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The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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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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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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Every believer is God's miracle.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be. Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them, Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven. All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.
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As the master so the valet.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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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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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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The heart is its own Fate.
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