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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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Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
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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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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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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.
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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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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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As the master so the valet.
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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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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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