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Letter "T" » Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes
«True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation»
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(Editor, Poet, Writer)
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Art
| Keywords:
paraphrase, paraphrases, Selecting, selects, translation, translations, verbatim
«My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings, And yet recalls the very hour 'Twas noon by yonder village tower, And on the last blue noon in May The wind came briskly up this way, Crisping the brook beside the road; Then,»
«The ocean moans over dead men's bones.»
«A man is known by the company his mind keeps.»
«What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness.»
«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.»
«Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.»
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
barbarism, masquerade, masquerades, masquerading, The Lamb
«The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.»
«There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.»
«They fail, and they alone, who have not striven»
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