Best quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich on Man

Checkout quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich on Man

  • A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
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  • A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
    - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.
    - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
    - 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.
    - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.
    - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus!
    - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.
    - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.
    - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to it after a prolonged absence, and then they stand out very sharply for a while.
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  • When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!
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  • Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.
    - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing.
    - Thomas Bailey Aldrich