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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.

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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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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It matters not how long we live but how.
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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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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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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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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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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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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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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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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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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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Man is one and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs thus are we men.
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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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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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