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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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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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Music tells no truths.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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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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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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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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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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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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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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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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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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It matters not how long we live but how.
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