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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
Author
Poet
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P. J. Bailey
Life
Serious
Death
Thing

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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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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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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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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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Man is one and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs thus are we men.
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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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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 wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
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As the master so the valet.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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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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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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Music tells no truths.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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