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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
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Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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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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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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We live in deeds, not years in thoughts, not breaths In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
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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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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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