Top 44 Quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

About Thomas Bailey Aldrich

These are some quotes by American author Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poet, who lived between November 11, 1836 and March 19, 1907.

To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.

To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.

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

Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination.

Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.

Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Portsmouth has the honor, I believe, of establishing the first recorded pauper workhouse - though not in connection with her poets, as might naturally be supposed.

Portsmouth has the honor, I believe, of establishing the first recorded pauper workhouse - though not in connection with her poets, as might naturally be supposed.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?

Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.

There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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