Bernard Barton quotes
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“Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.”
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“Patience wins the race.”
-- Bernard BartonSource : Bernard Barton (1828). “A new year's eve, and other poems”, p.38
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“Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.”
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“That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer.”
-- Bernard BartonSource : Bernard Barton, Lucy Barton (1853). “Poems and Letters by Bernard Barton: With a Memoir”, p.160
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Source : Source: www.slate.com
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“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”
Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72
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Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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