Bret Harte quotes
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“A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.”
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“The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.”
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“Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.”
-- Bret HarteSource : Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.112, VM eBooks
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“But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.”
-- Bret HarteSource : Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.193, VM eBooks
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“Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.”
-- Bret HarteSource : Bret Harte (1872). “Prose and Poetry”, p.305
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“It may be broadly stated that.....of all animals kept for the recreation of mankind the horse is alone capable of exciting a passion that shall be absolutely hopeless.”
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“Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.”
-- Bret HarteSource : Bret Harte (1871). “That heathen Chinee, and other poems mostly humorous”, p.113
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“Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armèd men the hum; Lo, a nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum Saying, Come, Freemen, Come! Ere your heritage be wasted, Said the quick alarming drum.”
-- Bret HarteSource : Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.15, VM eBooks
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“But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains.”
-- Bret HarteSource : Bret Harte (1886). “The Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte”, p.12, Library of Alexandria
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“There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death”
-- Bret HarteSource : Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.24, VM eBooks
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“Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.”
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“And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.”
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“Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England.”
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“Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!”
-- Bret HarteSource : Bret Harte (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Bret Harte (Illustrated)”, p.6563, Delphi Classics
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“When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my own.”
-- Bret HarteSource : Bret Harte (2016). “The Argonauts of North Liberty”, p.56, The Floating Press
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“The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.”
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“One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.”
-- Bret HarteSource : Bret Harte (1887). “The Poetical Works, Including the Drama of "The Two Men of Sandy Bar", of Bret Harte ...”
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“The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.”
-- Bret HarteSource : Bret Harte (1904). “The Writings of Bret Harte”
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“Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.”
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“The dominant expression of a child is gravity.”
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“Each lost day has its patron saint!”
-- Bret HarteSource : Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.118, VM eBooks
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“If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'”
-- Bret HarteSource : 'Mrs Judge Jenkins.'
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“For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.”
-- Bret HarteSource : Bret Harte (1914). “The Writings of Bret Harte”
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