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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.

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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Journalist
Novelist
Poet
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Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Best
Live
Giving
Wrest
Life
Swoop
Bold
Indeed
Death
Give

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Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!
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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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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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With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.
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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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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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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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