Philip James Bailey

Poet

1816-04-22

Quotes by Philip James Bailey

• 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.

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• We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

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• We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

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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.

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• The sole equality on earth is death.

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• America-half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land.

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• How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!

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• We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most-feels the noblest-acts the best.

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• Who never doubted never half believed; Where doubt, there truth is,-'tis her shadow.

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• They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

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• Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God.

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• Walk boldly and wisely ... There is a hand above that will help thee on.

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• Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.

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• Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.

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• Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

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• Love spends his all, and still hath store.

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• Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

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• The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.

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• We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.

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