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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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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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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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