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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
American Poet
Born: Nov 11, 1836
Died: Mar 19, 1907
Age Every He Man Own You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Heart Age Old Old Age Hopeful Kindly Triumph Over Cheerful Keep
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
Man Drifting Outside He Mere Himself Without Balloon Egotism Duties Inflated Them Should Nowhere Thin
Nothing except time is wasted in Italy. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Time Nothing Except Italy Wasted
The burdens of childhood are as hard to bear as the crosses that weigh us down later in life, while the happinesses of childhood are tame compared with those of our maturer years. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Life Down Our Later Those Crosses Bear Weigh Tame Years Burdens Childhood While Us Hard Compared
Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
State Unless Emancipation Abolish Abraham Abraham Lincoln Never New New Hampshire Lincoln Hampshire Itself Did Legally Any Ever Slavery
Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Man Own Every Mine Only Himself Industry Within Limited His Gold Riches Whose Every Man
What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to it after a prolonged absence, and then they stand out very sharply for a while. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Life Man People Own Those Circumstance Prolonged Out Details Absence He Countries Sharply Until Make Returns Always Foreign Foreign Countries His Impression Surroundings Very Same After Which Newest While Little Land Then Stand
I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or mental, on the part of children, without protesting, at least in my own mind, against the blindness and cruelty of their parents or guardians or whoever has care of them. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Witness Care Mind Parents Cruelty Own Guardians Physical Mental My Own Never Part Performance Talent Forced Protesting Without Blindness Least Exhibition Any Children Against Them Whoever
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Man Own Born His Suspects 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
You Will Must Find Ability Admit Parent His Child Average Such A Thing Who Thing
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Art Translation Gives Seldom True True Art
In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Man Age Every Spirits Unseen Hour Them Mighty Needed
A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus! Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Man Become Beginning Down Pleasant Threads Silk Perceive Habit He Leads Him Gently Does Led Iron In The Beginning Avenues Chains Soft
Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice - to make the average good. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Good Wish Others Ought Everyone Marry Some Allowed Make Average Twice
There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Love Man Selfish Once Unselfish
Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the bird himself feebly comes to regard plucking as his proper destiny and abjectly holds out his wing so long as there is a feather left on it. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Bird Long Everywhere Destiny Out Plucked Proper Wing Feather Tourist Looked Himself Continent His Left Regard Holds
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
Struggle Architecture Independence Visited Had He Town Him Impressed Stood Little Much Little Town Washington
Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spots. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Old Value Perception Down Corner Possible Possible Thing Intuitive Seem Most Houses Spots Always Lots Famous Themselves Thing Desirable Set
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
Water Sky Imagination Something Superstitious Generally Always Sailors Expanse Sea
I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Time Distance Out Hoped Would Find Born Something Misfortune Remembered Knew Nobody Looked North Maybe
Daily contact with boys who had not been brought up as gently as I worked an immediate and, in some respects, a beneficial change in my character. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Daily Character Change Beneficial Immediate Respects Some Brought Had Contact Gently Boy Been Up Worked Who
Painfully to attain possession of what we do not want, and then painfully to waste our days in attempting to rid ourselves of it, seems to be a part of our discipline here below. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Discipline Our Possession Ourselves Seems Attain Attempting Part Days Want Then Painfully Rid Waste Here Below

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