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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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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.
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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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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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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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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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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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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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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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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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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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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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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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