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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 dine
A 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