Philip James Bailey Quotes
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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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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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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Who never doubted never half believedWhere doubt there truth is-'t is her shadow.
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Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world Repeats the passage of the universe To God; the name of Christ--the one great word Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.
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The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.
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The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's Larger than this we leave, and lovelier. And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect, The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves. The will of God is all in all. He makes, Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.
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Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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Kindness is wisdom.
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If all were rich, gold would be penniless.
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I have a heart with room for every joy.
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We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.
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It matters not how long we live but how.
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Could I love less, I should be happier now.
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Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.
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No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.
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Death is another life.
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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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When pride thaws, look for floods.
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How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!
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The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
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Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.