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Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.

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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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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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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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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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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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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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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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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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 value of a thought cannot be told.
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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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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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The heart is its own Fate.
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