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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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Stars
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Orbs
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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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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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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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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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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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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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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Man is one and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs thus are we men.
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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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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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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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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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