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None but God can fill the perfect whole.

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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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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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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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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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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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Every believer is God's miracle.
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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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As the master so the valet.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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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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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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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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And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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