Thomas B. Aldrich

(363 votes)   To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas B. Aldrich

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(310 votes)   Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.

Thomas B. Aldrich
1836-1907, American Writer, Editor

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(264 votes)   To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas B. Aldrich
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(195 votes)   Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

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(193 votes)   The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

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(189 votes)   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.

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(183 votes)   They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

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(176 votes)   The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

Thomas B. Aldrich
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(104 votes)   True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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(98 votes)   They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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(95 votes)   To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

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(68 votes)   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
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(66 votes)   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
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(60 votes)   Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

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(59 votes)   The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

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