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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. |