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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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Honor
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
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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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