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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.

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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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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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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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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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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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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