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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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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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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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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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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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 worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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