Philip James Bailey Quotes

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• Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
• We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks…
• The long days are no happier than the short ones.
• The sole equality on earth is death.
• Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
• America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
• Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
• Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
• Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
• Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some…
• Imagination is the air of mind.
• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
• Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
• Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
• Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
• Blessings star forth forever; but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
• Every believer is God's miracle.
• Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.
• Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over…
• The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.

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