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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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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
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Evil then results from imperfection.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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Every believer is God's miracle.
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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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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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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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It matters not how long we live but how.
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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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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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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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