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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
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Poet
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P. J. Bailey
Evil
Imperfection
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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 truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
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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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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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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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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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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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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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