Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes & Sayings
12 most famous Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes and sayings (poet). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“A man is known by the company his mind keeps.”
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.”
“True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.”
“What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The ocean moans over dead men's bones.”
“Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.”
“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.”
“The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.”
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