Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes
Top 58 wise famous quotes and sayings by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Famous Quotes & Sayings
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And who are you?" cried one agape, Shuddering in the gloaming light. "I know not" said the second Shape, "I only died last night.
I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing.
What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.
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.
We visit...a neighboring grave-yard. I am by this time in a condition of mind to become a willing inmate of the place.
Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict.
When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!
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.
The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.
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.
A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.
A glance, a word
and joy or pain befalls ... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!
and joy or pain befalls ... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!
Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?
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 ...
A welcome waits you and sound wine
The Roederer chilly to a charm
As Juno's breasts the claret warm ...
My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.
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.
Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.
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.
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.
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.
It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.
That was indeed to live
at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.
at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.
Hebe's here, May is here!
The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey.
The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey.
Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs
putting in his oar, so to speak
with some pat word or sentence.
putting in his oar, so to speak
with some pat word or sentence.
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.