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None but God can fill the perfect whole.

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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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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Man is one and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs thus are we men.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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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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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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As the master so the valet.
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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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Blessings star forth forever but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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