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True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.
— Anne Reeve Aldrich
And who are you?" cried one agape, Shuddering in the gloaming light. "I know not" said the second Shape, "I only died last night.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
I bought the sweetness with this pain.
— Anne Reeve Aldrich
I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Love is the light that you see by.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Things last so much longer than people.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
E shall get on famously ... and be capital friends forever.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It is better to remember our love as it was in the springtime.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Love's the little leaven that works the whole world glad.
— Anne Reeve Aldrich
You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on,-and on.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It takes a small town to keep you humble.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
To the mass of mankind - meaning also womankind - marriage may be the only possible thing; but to the individual, it may be the one thing impossible.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
We visit...a neighboring grave-yard. I am by this time in a condition of mind to become a willing inmate of the place.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The young girl in my story is to be as sensitive to praise as a prism is to light. Whenever anybody praises her she breaks into colors.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A glance, a word and joy or pain befalls ... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny! — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
...For can you think how it would be, to never, never hear a meadow lark sing again...?
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.
— Aldrich Ames
Betty, who had found an old battered doll, was sitting quietly in the corner and industriously endeavoring to pick its one eye out
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The wheels where enormous wooden affairs, the back ones rounding up over the windows of the coach.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Forks ceased their perpendicular traveling.
— Bess Aldrich
The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.
— Aldrich Ames
Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice - to make the average good.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I beg you come tonight and dineA welcome waits you and sound wine
The Roederer chilly to a charm
As Juno's breasts the claret warm ... — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.
— Robert Aldrich
Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose.
— James Aldrich
By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.
— Aldrich Ames
My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
My mind lets go a thousand things,Like dates of wars and deaths of kings — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A nation without humor is not only sad but dangerous.
— Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself.
— Winthrop W. Aldrich
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
What is a day to an immortal soul!A breath, no more. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
That was indeed to live at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
...Laura knew the price of motherhood to be pain and responsibility; the reward, love and pride.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Girls are not born with a devotion to sanitation.
— Marcia Aldrich
Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
If all who love one another were of the same opinion, living would be monotonous, and conversation flabby. So cheer up. You are content. All me to be.
— Mildred Aldrich
It took all their common sense and philosophy to face life these days. The two are synonymous.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
We weep when we are born, not when we die!
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Hebe's here, May is here!The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.
— Anne Reeve Aldrich
Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs putting in his oar, so to speak
with some pat word or sentence. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
— Warren Zevon
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.
— Aldrich Ames
There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal ...
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Not all clever words are true ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.
— Aldrich Ames
It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
— Aldrich Ames
I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor.
— Aldrich Ames
O Liberty ... ! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I ... you mean me?""Quite naturally, when I said, 'What about you, yourself,' I meant
you. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
