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" A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Marriage
May
World
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" Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice - to make the average good. "
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" 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. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Age
Me
Praise
" If you chance to live in a town where the authorities cannot rest until they have destroyed every precious tree within their blighting reach, you will be especially charmed by the beauty of the streets of Portsmouth. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Chance
Beauty
You
" A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Friendship
Simplicity
Love
" True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Art
True
Translation
" Nothing except time is wasted in Italy. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Italy
Wasted
Time
" Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Only
Mine
Gold
" The Stamp Act was to go into operation on the first day of November. On the previous morning, the 'New Hampshire Gazette' appeared with a deep black border and all the typographical emblems of affliction, for was not Liberty dead? "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Liberty
Morning
Black
" 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
Details
Stand
Life
" Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also? "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Conservatism
Values
Unconventional
" The ocean moans over dead men's bones. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Men
Dead
Bones
" To the mass of mankind - meaning also womankind - marriage may be the only possible thing; but to the individual, it may be the one thing impossible. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Impossible
Possible
Meaning
" 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
Talent
Parents
Mind
" It is a great mistake on the part of elderly ladies, male and female, to tell a child that he is seeing his happiest days. Do not you believe a word of it, my little friend. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Mistake
Child
Believe
" To live in Portsmouth without possessing a family portrait done by Copley is like living in Boston without having an ancestor in the old Granary Burying-Ground. You can exist, but you cannot be said to flourish. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Live
Portrait
Family
" Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Lamb
Skin
Which
" In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Age
Hour
Spirits
" 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
Character
Up
Change
" To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Over
Heart
Old
" 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
Long
Bird
Destiny
" I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Help
Circumstances
Doing
" 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
Days
Waste
Want
" The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Who
His
Born
" 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
Outside
Nowhere
Man
" The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds, and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Experience
Good
Lie
" There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Men
Over
Special
" 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
New
Did
Never
" They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Alone
Fail
Who
" To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Know
Weak
Punishment
" Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Today
Rome
Past