“ Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
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“ We should count time by heartthrobs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
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“ We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
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“ We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
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“ 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 most, feels the noblest, acts the best. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
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“ Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things — law and war. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
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“ The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
- 2K
“ Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
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“ See the gold sunshine patching,And streaming and streaking acrossThe gray-green oaks; and catching,By its soft brown beard, the moss. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
- 1.8K
“ See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
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“ Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
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“ Poets are all who love, — who feel great truths, And tell them. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
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“ A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
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“ For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
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“ I love night more than day — she is so lovely; But I love night the most because she brings My love to me in dreams which scarcely lie. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Blessing star forth forever; but a curse Is like a cloud — it passes. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
- 2.9K
“ America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
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“ Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them — God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
- 1.2K
“ See the gold sunshine patching,And streaming and streaking acrossThe gray-green oaks; and catching,By its soft brown beard, the moss. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
- 3.2K
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