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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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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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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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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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As the master so the valet.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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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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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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Evil then results from imperfection.
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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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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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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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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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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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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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