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I have a heart with room for every joy .

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
Every
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.
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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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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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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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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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