Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes
1836–1907 United States
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (November 11, 1836 – March 19, 1907) was a poet and novelist born in Portsmouth, USA.
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What is lovely never dies,
But passes into other loveliness,
Star-dust, or sea-foam, or wingëd air.
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
There's a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.
What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.
The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
We weep when we are born, not when we die!
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Bailey Aldrich (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.