Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes

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• To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

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  Birthday, Hope, Heart

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”

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• A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Mind, Company

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”

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• What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

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  Love, Beauty, Sympathy

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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

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  Inspirational, Fear, Failure

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.

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  Death Penalty, Murder, Intolerance

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• Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

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  Inspirational, Civilization, Skins

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.

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  Teaching, Fate, Bed

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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• I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

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  Wings, Imagination, Mind

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers. A sea turn, and other matters”

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• My mind lets go a thousand things,
  Like dates of wars and deaths of kings

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  Letting Go, Kings, War

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

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  Art, Generosity, Giving

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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• How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

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  Life, Fall, Leafs

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses to be forgotten, that is the sincere thing.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Book, Likes, Forget

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”

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

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  Soul, Immortal Soul, Immortal

  thomas bailey aldrich (1875). “cloth of gold and other poems”, p.126

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• What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.

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  Vocabulary, Age, Next

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Life, Harps

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• We weep when we are born, Not when we die!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Tears, Born, Dies

  thomas bailey aldrich (1875). “cloth of gold and other poems”, p.127

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• The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.

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  Art, Masters, Laurels

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”

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• Though I be shut in darkness, and become insentient dust blown idly here and there, I count oblivion a scant price to pay for having once had held against my lip life's brimming cup of hydromel and rue--for having once known woman's holy love and a child's kiss, and for a little space been boon companion to the Day and Night, Fed on the odors of the summer dawn, and folded in the beauty of the stars. Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, and serve the potter as he turns his wheel, I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!

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  Life, Summer, Stars

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Boredom, Speech

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”

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• It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.

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  Believe, Heart, Sight

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (2005). “The Story of a Bad Boy”, p.57, 1st World Publishing

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

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Weather, Rainbow, Thunder

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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

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  Freedom, Liberty, Wells

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well to leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of Fate, lift the down-trodden, but with hand of steel stay those who to thy sacred portals come to waste the gifts of Freedom.

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  Hurt, Children, Fate

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Speech, Spokes, Candor

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• 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.

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  Power, Men, Nero

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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