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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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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
Philip James Bailey
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.
Philip James Bailey
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.
Philip James Bailey
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
Philip James Bailey
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.
Philip James Bailey
Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
Philip James Bailey
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.
Philip James Bailey
There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
Philip James Bailey
Let us think less of men and more of God.
Philip James Bailey
Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.
Philip James Bailey
As the master so the valet.
Philip James Bailey
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
Philip James Bailey
Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
Philip James Bailey
It matters not how long we live but how.
Philip James Bailey
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Philip James Bailey
The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
Philip James Bailey
America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
Philip James Bailey
For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
Philip James Bailey
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.
Philip James Bailey
The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
Philip James Bailey