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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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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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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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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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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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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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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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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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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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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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