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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
