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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
Author
Poet
Writer
P. J. Bailey
Endure
Half
Great
Disappointment

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True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift is all Which men need render all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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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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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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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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