Philip James Bailey Quotes
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Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.
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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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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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It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
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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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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in lifeBut needs it, and may learn.
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Who never doubted never half believedWhere doubt there truth is-'t is her shadow.
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If all were rich, gold would be penniless.
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Kindness is wisdom.
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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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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud.
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We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.
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Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.
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The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
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It matters not how long we live but how.
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Death is another life.
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I have a heart with room for every joy.
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How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!
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It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial.