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Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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


— Thomas Bailey Aldrich


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


— Thomas Bailey Aldrich


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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.


— Thomas Bailey Aldrich


#bird #eden #ever #fall #first

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


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


— Thomas Bailey Aldrich


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A man is known by the company his mind keeps.


— Thomas Bailey Aldrich


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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.


— Thomas Bailey Aldrich


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The ocean moans over dead men's bones.


— Thomas Bailey Aldrich


#dead #men #ocean #over

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


— Thomas Bailey Aldrich


#fail #striven #who

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


— Thomas Bailey Aldrich


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His talent was many-sided. From 1856 to 1859 Aldrich was on the staff of the Home Journal then edited by Nathaniel Parker Willis. Critics believed him to show the influence of Robert Herrick.

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