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Let us think less of men and more of God.

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
Men
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Thinking
God
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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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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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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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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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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We live in deeds, not years in thoughts, not breaths In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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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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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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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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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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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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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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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 heart is its own Fate.
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Nature means Necessity.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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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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The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be. Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them, Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven. All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.
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