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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.

Philip James Bailey

Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.

Philip James Bailey

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow.

Philip James Bailey

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is—it is her shadow.

Philip James Bailey

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Gamaliel Bailey

England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!

Philip James Bailey

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

Philip James Bailey

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Philip James Bailey

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. -Pearl Bailey.

Pearl Bailey

There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.

Philip James Bailey

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Philip James Bailey

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

Henry Christopher Bailey

The heart is its own Fate.

Philip James Bailey

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

Philip James Bailey

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

Pearl Bailey

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

Gamaliel Bailey

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

David Bailey

Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.

Philip James Bailey

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Philip James Bailey

My favoured temple is in an humble heart.

Philip James Bailey

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Philip James Bailey

Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.

Philip James Bailey

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

Pearl Bailey

The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.

Philip James Bailey

As the master so the valet. (Like master, like man.) [Fr., Fel maltre, tel valet.]

Philip James Bailey

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