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My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings
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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What is a day to an immortal soul! A breath, no more.
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The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses to be forgotten, that is the sincere thing.
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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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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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Up from the dark the moon begins to creep and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from the deep a drowned body rises solemnly.
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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
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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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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 fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.
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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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We weep when we are born, Not when we die!
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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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No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
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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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Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.
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O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well to leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of Fate, lift the down-trodden, but with hand of steel stay those who to thy sacred portals come to waste the gifts of Freedom.
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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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What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.
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