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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. — 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

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

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

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

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

The ocean moans over dead men's bones. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

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

After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow. — Thomas Bailey 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

In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

O Liberty ... ! is it well To leave the gates unguarded? — 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

Hebe's here, May is here!
The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey. — 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

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

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

We weep when we are born, not when we die! — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What is a day to an immortal soul!
A breath, no more. — 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

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