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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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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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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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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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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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Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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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.
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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.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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