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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
Author
Poet
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P. J. Bailey
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Life
Settles
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Immortality

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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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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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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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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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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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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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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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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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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 ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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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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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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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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