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Philip James Bailey Quotes: For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
         

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.


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The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!



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



There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.



For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.



Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.



Surely the stars are images of love.

Surely the stars are images of love.



Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.



Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.



Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.



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.

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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