Best Quotes by Bret Harte (Top 9)
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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.
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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."
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Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
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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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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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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
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One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
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