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I have a heart with room for every joy .

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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 wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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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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Every believer is God's miracle.
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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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Poetry is itself a thing of God He made his prophets poets and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.
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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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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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As the master so the valet.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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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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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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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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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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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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