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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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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift is all Which men need render all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
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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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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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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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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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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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It matters not how long we live but how.
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The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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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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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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The heart is its own Fate.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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