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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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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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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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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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Evil then results from imperfection.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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It matters not how long we live but how.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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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 wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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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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As the master so the valet.
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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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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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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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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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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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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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