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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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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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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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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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As the master so the valet.
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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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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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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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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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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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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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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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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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