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What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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American
-
Poet
November 11
, 1836 -
March 19
, 1907
What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Sympathy
,
Never
,
Lovely
Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Past
,
Tomorrow
,
Rome
Nothing except time is wasted in Italy.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Nothing
,
Wasted
,
Except
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Age
,
Kindly
,
Reverent
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Balloon
,
Drifting
,
Them
Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Sky
,
Always
,
Superstitious
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Which
,
Lamb
,
Barbarism
The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds, and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Play
,
Behind
,
Very
To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Proud
,
Punishment
,
Proud Man
There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Love
,
Selfish
,
Once
The Stamp Act was to go into operation on the first day of November. On the previous morning, the 'New Hampshire Gazette' appeared with a deep black border and all the typographical emblems of affliction, for was not Liberty dead?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Border
,
New
,
November
There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Special
,
Watches
,
Over
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Mind
,
Known
,
His
The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Ocean
,
Bones
,
Over
A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Love
,
Friendship
,
Treat
When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Town
,
Impressed
,
Stood
When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Him
,
Custom
,
Floats
Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Mine
,
Within
,
Limited
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Mind
,
Desire
,
Given
Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Half
,
Remind
,
Had
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Born
,
Own
,
His
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Alone
,
Fail
,
Who
There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Parent
,
Will
,
Average
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Art
,
Seldom
,
True Art
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.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Note
,
Some
,
Been
In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Mighty
,
Hour
,
Needed
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