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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
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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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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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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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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