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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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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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Nature means Necessity.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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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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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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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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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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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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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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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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