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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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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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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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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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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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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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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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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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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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