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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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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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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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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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The heart is its own Fate.
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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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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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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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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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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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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 surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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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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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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