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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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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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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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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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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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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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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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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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Evil then results from imperfection.
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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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Nature means Necessity.
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When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
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Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.
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