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I cannot be content with less than heaven.

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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P. J. Bailey
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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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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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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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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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We live in deeds, not years in thoughts, not breaths In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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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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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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