Thomas Aldrich Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear as the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts that work no harm do terrify us more than men in steel with bloody purposes.	Anticipation
2	Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.	Candor
3	We weep when we are born, Not when we die!	Death
4	When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away, And in a dream as in a fairy bark Drift on and on through the enchanted dark To purple daybreak - little thought we pay To that sweet bitter world we know by day.	Dreams
5	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.	Originality
6	Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.	Public Speaking
7	Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes, And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.	Sun
8	When I behold what pleasure is pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is, Then mark how full possession falls from this, How fairer seem the blossoms than the fruit,-- I am perplext, and often stricken mute, Wondering which attained the higher bliss, The wingèd insect, or the chrysalis It thrust aside with unreluctant foot.	Possession
9	When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away, And in a dream as in a fairy bark Drift on and on through the enchanted dark To purple daybreak--little thought we pay To that sweet bitter world we know by day.	Dream
10	Or light or dark, or short or tall, She sets a springe to snare them all: All's one to her--above her fan She'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.	Flirting

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