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Philip James Bailey

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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.


— Philip James Bailey


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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.


— Philip James Bailey


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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.


— Philip James Bailey


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Music tells no truths.


— Philip James Bailey


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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.


— Philip James Bailey


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What men call accident is God's own part.


— Philip James Bailey


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Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.


— Philip James Bailey


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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


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Kindness is wisdom.


— Philip James Bailey


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Along with its qualities it has many faults in execution: a certain incoherency in the manner in which it is worked out prevents it from being easily readable by any but the most sympathetic student. Festus first publiPhilip James Baileyd anonymously in 1839 underwent many changes and incorporations but it remains a singular example of a piece of work virtually completed in youth and never supplanted or reinforced by later achievements of its author. " It contains fine lines and dignified thought and is most notable for its original topic vivid imagery and moral altitude as well as for the author's remarkable precocity.

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