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Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant
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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Portsmouth
New Hampshire
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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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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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All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?
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The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
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What is a day to an immortal soul! A breath, no more.
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With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.
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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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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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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
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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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My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings
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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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