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Evil then results from imperfection.

Philip James Bailey

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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
Author
Poet
Writer
P. J. Bailey
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Evil
Imperfection

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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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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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The heart is its own Fate.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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As the master so the valet.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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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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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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