It is fine to stand upon some ...

It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.
 Philip James Bailey

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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
Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.
 Philip James Bailey
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
 Philip James Bailey
What men call accident is God's own part.
 Philip James Bailey
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
 Philip James Bailey