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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

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
Disappointment
Endure
Half
Great

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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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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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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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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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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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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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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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