Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
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Quotes by Philip James Bailey
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Kindness is wisdom.
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.
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.
Imagination is the air of mind.
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
The long days are no happier than the short ones.
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
The sole equality on earth is death.
What men call accident is God's own part.
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
Music tells no truths.
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