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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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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
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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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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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The sole equality on earth is death.
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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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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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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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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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As the master so the valet.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
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Every believer is God's miracle.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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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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