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What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.
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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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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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
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O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!
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Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant
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I beg you come tonight and dine A welcome waits you and sound wine The Roederer chilly to a charm As Juno's breasts the claret warm.
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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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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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What is a day to an immortal soul! A breath, no more.
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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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My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings
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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 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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With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.
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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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A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!
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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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Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.
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Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one's ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed.
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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
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