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“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. Death is not dreadful; 'tis the dread of death— We die whene'er we think of it!”

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American poet born on November 11, 1836, and died on March 19, 1907. His poetry is known for its elegant rhythm and profound emotion, which had a significant impact on the development of American poetry. more

“Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's Innumerable children. Unconfined By shroud or coffin, disembodied souls, Uneasy spirits, steal into the air From festering graveyards when the curfew tolls At the day's death... And wheresoever murders have been done, In stately palaces or lonesome woods, Where'er a soul has sold itself and lost Its high inheritance, there, hovering, broods Some sad, invisible, accurséd Ghost!”

Source: The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems

“When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.”

Want Giving Tennis Inspirational Tennis

Author:Roger Federer

“Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more!”

Ifs Lord Blessing Sake Solemn Thanksgiving Day

Author:Will Carleton

“To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have torches lit; Blazing red the maples shine the woodlands through.”

Way Years Tree Red Shining Guides Mortals Autumn Distress Lit Weeping Torches Blazing Maple Woodland

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.”

Lost Player Position Blame Enjoyed Soccer Tennis Tennis Player Goalkeepers

Author:Roger Federer

“We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.”

May Earth Universe Possibility Wide Elsewhere Contemplating Miscellaneous Blinders

Author:Norman Cousins

“Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.”

Feels Real Enough Pain Happiness Success Thousand Lucky Adversity Misery Cures Imaginary Real Pain

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)

“The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.”

Men Years Moments Three Interesting Greater Events Months Birth Ten Nine Score Nine Months

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.”

May Whole Please Forgotten Saved Fancy Passages Volume Quotations Oblivion

Book:The complete works: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions. Ed. by [William Greenougl Thayer] Shedd in 7 Vol

Source: The complete works: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions. Ed. by [William Greenougl Thayer] Shedd in 7 Vol

“A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.”

Men Eye Maxims Cyclops

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

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