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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.

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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Poet
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P. J. Bailey
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Godward
Earth
Feasts
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Turned

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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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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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Every believer is God's miracle.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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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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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.
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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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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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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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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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