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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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Immortality
Thought
Life
Settles

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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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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 first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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Music tells no truths.
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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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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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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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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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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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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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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