Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Quotes

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.

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.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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.

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

A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.

A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.

In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.

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

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