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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
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
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
E shall get on famously ... and be capital friends forever.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.
— Thomas Bailey 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
The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.
— 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
Daily contact with boys who had not been brought up as gently as I worked an immediate and, in some respects, a beneficial change in my character.
— 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
Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?
— 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
To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Nothing except time is wasted in Italy.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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
Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.
— Thomas Bailey 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
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
O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!
— 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
When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.
— 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
What is a day to an immortal soul!A breath, no more. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
We weep when we are born, not when we die!
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!
— Thomas Bailey 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
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
Hebe's here, May is here!The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
O Liberty ... ! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.
— 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
Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich