Philip James Bailey Short Quotes

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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

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All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.

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The sun, bright keystone of Heaven's world-built arch...

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The sun, God's crest upon His azure shield, the heavens.

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As dewdrops countless on the aetherial fields Of the skies.

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Joys
Are bubble-like — what makes them,
Bursts them too.

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Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

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Evil is limited. One cannot form
A scheme for universal evil.

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Unimaginable space, As full of suns as is earth's sun of atoms.

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Stars which stand as thick as dew-drops on the field of heaven.

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Not a single path
Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God.

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What are ye orbs?
The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

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Thou art a woman,
And that is saying the best and worst of thee.

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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.

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The wind breathes not, and the wave
Walks softly as above a grave.

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Blessings star forth forever; but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.

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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

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O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!

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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life
But needs it, and may learn.

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When night hath set her silver lamp on high,
Then is the time for study.

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England! my country, great and free!
Heart of the world, I leap to thee!

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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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Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.

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Soul of the world, divine Necessity,
Servant of God, and master of all things.

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Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.

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