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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

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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P. J. Bailey
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Atheism
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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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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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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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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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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 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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Poetry is itself a thing of God He made his prophets poets and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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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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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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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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