Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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"Thomas Bailey Aldrich" was an American poet, novelist, travel writer and editor.

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What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings, And yet recalls the very hour 'Twas noon by yonder village tower, And on the last blue noon in May The wind came briskly up this way, Crisping the brook beside the road; Then.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

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.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

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.