Thomas Bailey Aldrich Short Quotes

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Though I am not genuine Boston, I am Boston-plated.

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What probing deep
Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

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

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

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With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

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All the panes are hung with frost
Wild wizard-work of silver lace.

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So precious life is! Even to the old
The hours are as a miser's coins!

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

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

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

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

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

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The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

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In her eyes a thought
Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn, —
A mystical forewarning.

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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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The fair, frail palaces,
The fading alps and archipelagoes,
And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.

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

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

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A mighty wind, like a leviathan,
Ploughed through the brine, and from these solitudes
Sent Silence frightened.

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My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.

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That was indeed to live—
At one bold swoop to wrest
From darkling death the best
That Death to Life can give!

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Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.

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The air is full of hints of grief,
Strange voices touched with pain —
The pathos of the falling leaf
And rustling of the rain.

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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.

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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.

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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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If my best wines mislike thy taste,
And my best service win thy frown,
Then tarry not, I bid thee haste;
There's many another Inn in town.

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.

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