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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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Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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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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It matters not how long we live but how.
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Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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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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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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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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Evil then results from imperfection.
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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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