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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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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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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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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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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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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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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
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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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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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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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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 course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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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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