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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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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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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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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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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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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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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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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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Every believer is God's miracle.
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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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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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