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Life is as serious a thing as death.

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
Serious
Death
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Life

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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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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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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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