Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes

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• A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
• 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…
• Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Featureless figures…
• Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
• The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
• Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach…
• They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
• With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.
• Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!
• What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?
• 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…
• The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.
• Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.
• 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…
• Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.
• 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.
• It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.
• Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London.…
• 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…
• But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn…

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