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One thought settles a life, an immortality.

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
Immortality
Thought
Life
Settles
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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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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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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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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True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift is all Which men need render all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
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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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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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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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The sole equality on earth is death.
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As the master so the valet.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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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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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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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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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.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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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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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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