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

  Philip James Bailey

  Writing, Heart, Mind

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.286

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• We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.

  Philip James Bailey

  Power, Mind, Spirit

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• Could I love less, I should be happier now.

  Philip James Bailey

  Love, Life, Should

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.549

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• The temples perish, but the God still lives.

  Philip James Bailey

  Soul, Temples, Still Life

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.424

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• Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

  Philip James Bailey

  Sympathy, Heart, Men

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.40

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• The value of a thought cannot be told.

  Philip James Bailey

  Values

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.140

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• Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

  Philip James Bailey

  Envy, Coal, Hot

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.86

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

  Philip James Bailey

  Fate, Thank God, Bears

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.296

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• Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.

  Philip James Bailey

  God, Soul

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.63

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• When I forget that the stars shine in air--
  When I forget that beauty is in stars--
  When I forget that love with beauty is--
  Will I forget thee: till then all things else.

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, Air, Shining

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.236

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• True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form,
  The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all
  Which men need render; all which God can bear.
  What to the faith are forms? A passing speck,
  A crow upon the sky.

  Philip James Bailey

  Uplifting, Faith, Eye

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.113

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• Error is worse than ignorance.

  Philip James Bailey

  Ignorance, Errors

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.73

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• Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.

  Philip James Bailey

  Death, War, Blood

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.110

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

  Philip James Bailey

  Night, Lamps, Study

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.112

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• Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.

  Philip James Bailey

  Spring, Light, Self

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• The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

  Philip James Bailey

  Nature, Courses, Whole

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• Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.

  Philip James Bailey

  Night, Shadow

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• Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.

  Philip James Bailey

  Snow, Lips, Peeping

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.45

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• A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.

  Philip James Bailey

  Love Is, Sea, Poet

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.253

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• 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

  Sunshine, Gold, Beard

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.146

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

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, Sky, Scripture

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.489

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• The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

  Philip James Bailey

  Beauty, Beautiful, Men

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.50

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

  Philip James Bailey

  Suicide, Hands, Makers

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• Music tells no truths.

  Philip James Bailey

  Music

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.174

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• Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.

  Philip James Bailey

  Grief, Heart, Age

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.87

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