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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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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Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.
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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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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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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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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
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