Philip James Bailey Quotes
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The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.
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Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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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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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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When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.
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If all were rich, gold would be penniless.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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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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Who never doubted never half believedWhere doubt there truth is-'t is her shadow.
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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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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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Kindness is wisdom.
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We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.
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I have a heart with room for every joy.
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Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud.
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Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.
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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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It matters not how long we live but how.
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How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!
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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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Could I love less, I should be happier now.
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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.
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When pride thaws, look for floods.