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I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more, As look upon it with an empty eye. I would this world were over. I am tired.
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Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.
Philip James Bailey
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True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
Philip James Bailey -
Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
Philip James Bailey -
Blessings star forth forever; but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
Philip James Bailey -
Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts.
Philip James Bailey -
The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
Philip James Bailey -
Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
Philip James Bailey
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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.
Philip James Bailey -
There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
Philip James Bailey -
Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
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See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.
Philip James Bailey -
Nature means Necessity.
Philip James Bailey -
England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!
Philip James Bailey
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Not a single path Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God.
Philip James Bailey -
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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If all were rich, gold would be penniless.
Philip James Bailey -
The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
Philip James Bailey -
The long days are no happier than the short ones.
Philip James Bailey -
Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
Philip James Bailey