Philip James Bailey Quotes
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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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It matters not how long we live but how.
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The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
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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 truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
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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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Imagination is the air of mind.
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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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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.
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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.
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Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.
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Love spends his all, and still hath store.
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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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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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Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
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What men call accident is God's own part.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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As the master so the valet.
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They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
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It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.
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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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Doubt is the shadow of truth.
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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.