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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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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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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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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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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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It matters not how long we live but how.
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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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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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Music tells no truths.
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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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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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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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