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The value of a thought cannot be told.

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
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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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We live in deeds, not years in thoughts, not breaths In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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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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Nature means Necessity.
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Man is one and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs thus are we men.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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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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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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Evil then results from imperfection.
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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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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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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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