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The strongest passion which I have is honor.

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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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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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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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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The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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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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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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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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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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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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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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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.
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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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Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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