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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(1836 - 1907)Short Story Writer and Editor.
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes and Quotations
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent -that is to triumph over old age.
The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.
After a debauch of thundershower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.