English - Poet | April 22, 1816 - September 6, 1902
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Philip James Bailey
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
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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.
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Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
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Kindness is wisdom.
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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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The sole equality on earth is death.
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
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