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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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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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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 wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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It matters not how long we live but how.
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Evil then results from imperfection.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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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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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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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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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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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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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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