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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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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Age: 70 †
Born: 1836
Born: November 2
Died: 1907
Died: March 19
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Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.
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We weep when we are born, Not when we die!
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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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The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.
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How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.
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With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.
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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
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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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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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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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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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Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.
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