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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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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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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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The heart is its own Fate.
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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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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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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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Evil then results from imperfection.
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As the master so the valet.
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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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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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Poetry is itself a thing of God He made his prophets poets and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.
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Music tells no truths.
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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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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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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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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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