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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 value of a thought cannot be told.
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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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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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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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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Nature means Necessity.
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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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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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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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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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The sole equality on earth is death.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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Evil then results from imperfection.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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