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Thomas Bailey Aldrich Inspirational Quotes (47)

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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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I like not lady-slippers, Nor yet the sweet-pea blossoms, Nor yet the flaky roses, Red or white as snow I like the chaliced lilies, The heavy Eastern lilies, The gorgeous tiger-lilies, That in our garden grow.
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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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It is only your habitual late riser who takes in the full flavor of Nature at those rare intervals when he gets up to go afishing. He brings virginal emotions and unsatiated eyes to the sparkling freshness of earth and stream and sky.
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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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Up from the dark the moon begins to creep and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from the deep a drowned body rises solemnly.
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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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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
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What is a day to an immortal soul! A breath, no more.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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October turned my maple's leaves to gold The most are gone now here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.
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Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.
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How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.
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O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!
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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 ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.
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Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
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Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant
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My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings
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