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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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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
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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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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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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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Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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Every believer is God's miracle.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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Evil then results from imperfection.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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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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As the master so the valet.
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Nature means Necessity.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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