American - Poet | November 11, 1836 - March 19, 1907
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
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Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?
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When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!
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I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it.
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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.
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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.
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The burdens of childhood are as hard to bear as the crosses that weigh us down later in life, while the happinesses of childhood are tame compared with those of our maturer years.
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I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing.
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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.
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