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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.
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 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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Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
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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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The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be. Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them, Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven. All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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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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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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Evil then results from imperfection.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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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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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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