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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
Philip James Bailey
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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
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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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The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be. Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them, Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven. All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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It matters not how long we live but how.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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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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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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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 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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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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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 heart is its own Fate.
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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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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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Evil then results from imperfection.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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