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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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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Nature means Necessity.
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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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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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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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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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We live in deeds, not years in thoughts, not breaths In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
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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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