American - Poet | November 11, 1836 - March 19, 1907
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
GoodExperienceLieEvilGenius
Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.
ManGoldWithinOwnIndustryMine
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.
ImaginationMindDetailWingsDesire
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.
AgeDayMeFindBecomeLimit
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
ManBornOwnWhoHisSuspects
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
AloneFailWho
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
ArtTrueTranslationSeldomGives
In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.
AgeManMightyUnseenSpiritsHour
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!
BeginningHabitManDownBecomeHim
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.
MarriageImpossibleMeaningPossible
Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice - to make the average good.
GoodWishOthersEveryoneTwice
A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
MarriageManHappyWorldMayWorse
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