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Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
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Kindness is wisdom.
Philip James Bailey
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Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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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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When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.
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It is sad To see the light of beauty wane away, Know eyes are dimming, bosoms shrivelling, feet Losing their springs, and limbs their lily roundness; But it is worse to feel the heart-spring gone, To lose hope, care not for the coming thing, And feel all things go to decay within us.
Philip James Bailey
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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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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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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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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
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Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.
Philip James Bailey
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Be cheerful and grateful for the good that you have: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
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Death is another life.
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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
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We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.
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How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!
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Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
Philip James Bailey
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Any heart turned God ward feels more joy In one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised By all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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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.
Philip James Bailey