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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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P. J. Bailey
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Imperfection

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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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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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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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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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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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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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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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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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