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Bret Harte quotes: A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

Bret Harte quotes: The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

Bret Harte quotes: Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

Bret Harte quotes: Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Bret Harte quotes: There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death

There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death

Bret Harte quotes: The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above beinginterfered with by prayers.

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being
interfered with by prayers.

Bret Harte quotes: Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

Bret Harte quotes: 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!'

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 Harte quotes: There was a Sabbath lull in the air, which, in a settlement unused to Sabbath influences, looked ominous.

There was a Sabbath lull in the air, which, in a settlement unused to Sabbath influences, looked ominous.

Bret Harte quotes: We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Bret Harte quotes: And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.

And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.

Bret Harte quotes: Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

Bret Harte quotes: 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.

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 Harte quotes: The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Bret Harte quotes: Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

Bret Harte quotes: 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!

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 Harte quotes: Each lost day has its patron saint!

Each lost day has its patron saint!

Bret Harte quotes: But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains.

But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains.

Bret Harte quotes: Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.

Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.

Bret Harte quotes: The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.

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 Harte quotes: 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.

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.

Bret Harte quotes: For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

Bret Harte quotes: One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.