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Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: And who are you?" cried one agape, Shuddering in the gloaming light. "I know not" said the second Shape, "I only died last night. 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 quotes: I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing. 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 quotes: E shall get on famously ... and be capital friends forever. E shall get on famously ... and be capital friends forever.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air. What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: 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. 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 quotes: We visit...a neighboring grave-yard. I am by this time in a condition of mind to become a willing inmate of the place. 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 quotes: Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict. 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 quotes: When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all! 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 quotes: 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 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 quotes: Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry. Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow. The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice. 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 quotes: What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next. What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: 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. 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 quotes: A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage. A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not. 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 quotes: A glance, a word and joy or pain befalls ... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny! 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 quotes: Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also? Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: I beg you come tonight and dineA welcome waits you and sound wineThe Roederer chilly to a charmAs Juno's breasts the claret warm ... 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 quotes: To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man. To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: Nothing except time is wasted in Italy. Nothing except time is wasted in Italy.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again. 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 quotes: What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep? What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: 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. 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 quotes: My mind lets go a thousand things,Like dates of wars and deaths of kings My mind lets go a thousand things,
Like dates of wars and deaths of kings
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy. Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow. After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: O harp of life, so speedily unstrung! O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love. There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green. With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight. It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: What is a day to an immortal soul!A breath, no more. What is a day to an immortal soul!
A breath, no more.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: We weep when we are born, not when we die! We weep when we are born, not when we die!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins! So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep! Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere. 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 quotes: That was indeed to live at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give. 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 quotes: Hebe's here, May is here!The air is fresh and sunny;And the miser-bees are busyHoarding golden honey. Hebe's here, May is here!
The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: The ocean moans over dead men's bones. The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: O Liberty ... ! is it well To leave the gates unguarded? O Liberty ... ! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf. How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife. It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly. The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs putting in his oar, so to speak with some pat word or sentence. Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs
putting in his oar, so to speak
with some pat word or sentence.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys. There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them. In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: A man is known by the company his mind keeps. A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes: Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice - to make the average good. 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 quotes: Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

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