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• But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Dream, Twilight, Sleep

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Women, Eyebrows, Way

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• The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Ocean, Men, Bones

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• October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Dying, Gold, Here And There

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1897). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than men in steel with bloody purposes. Death is not dreadful; 'tis the dread of death— We die whene'er we think of it!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Thinking, Sorrow

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• Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Communication, Dialect, Care

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers”

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• It is only your habitual late riser who takes in the full flavor of Nature at those rare intervals when he gets up to go afishing. He brings virginal emotions and unsatiated eyes to the sparkling freshness of earth and stream and sky.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Morning, Eye, Sky

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”

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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

  Book, Age, Half

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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• Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  New York, Men, Doors

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers. A sea turn, and other matters”

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• I like not lady-slippers, Nor yet the sweet-pea blossoms, Nor yet the flaky roses, Red or white as snow; I like the chaliced lilies, The heavy Eastern lilies, The gorgeous tiger-lilies, That in our garden grow.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sweet, Garden, White

  Thomas Bailey ALDRICH (1859). “The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems”, p.28

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• So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Suicide, Thinking, New Orleans

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (2005). “The Story of a Bad Boy”, p.55, 1st World Publishing

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• It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at). There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty. Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever - unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Humorous, Thinking, Men

  Letter to Professor E.S. Morse, Science, Volume 15, 1890.

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• My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Father, Banking, Able

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1872). “The Story of a Bad Boy”, p.11

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• Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Eye, Gay, Laughing

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Poems”

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• At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Age, Century

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Up from the dark the moon begins to creep; and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from the deep a drowned body rises solemnly.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Dark, Moon, Water

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Laughing, Optimism, Joy

  THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH (1877). “FLOWER AND THORN”

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• What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sleep, Mystery, Probing

  THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH (1877). “FLOWER AND THORN”

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• Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sleep, Delicate, Turns

  thomas bailey aldrich (1875). “cloth of gold and other poems”, p.114

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• Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sunset, Fire, Clouds

  'Miracles'

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• With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Memorial Day, Land, Remembrance

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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