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A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Age: 70 †
Born: 1836
Born: November 2
Died: 1907
Died: March 19
Editor
Journalist
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Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Joy
Binds
Word
Glance
Pain
Slight
Glances
Chain
Links
Chains
Destiny
Befalls

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My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings
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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 man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
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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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