Philip James Bailey
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"Philip James Bailey" was an English Spasmodic poet, best known as the author of Festus.

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Kindness is wisdom.

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

The sole equality on earth is death.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

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.

What men call accident is God's own part.

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

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

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