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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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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.
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It matters not how long we live but how.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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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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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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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
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