"O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!"

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Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#Life Quotes #Harps Quotes

“Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.”
“This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.”
“Nobody cares that you're smart and nobody cares that your kids don't have bruises.”
“Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators'... nowadays it's 'fabricators'... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.”
“They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.”
“We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.”
“One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.”
“Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.”

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