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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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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
What men call accident is God's own part.
Philip James Bailey
It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.
Philip James Bailey
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
Philip James Bailey
