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Bret Harte Quotes (1839-1902)
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About Bret Harte
Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1839 β May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.
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βEach lost day has its patron saint!β
βWe are ruined by Chinese cheap labor.β
βWith the smile that was childlike and bland.β
βWell, no offense:
Thar ain't no sense
In gittin' riled.β
Thar ain't no sense
In gittin' riled.β
βDon't be too quick
To break bad habits: better stick,
Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.β
To break bad habits: better stick,
Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.β
βAnd then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,
This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.β
This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.β
βLater, when we were forced to accept the fact that finding gold was really the primary object of a gold-mining company, we still remained thereβ
βHowbeit, 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.β
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Bret Harte on War 3 quotes
βAn hour ago, a Star was falling. A star? There's nothing strange in that. No, nothing; but above the thicket, Somehow it seemed to me that God Somewhere had just relieved a picket.β
Bret Harte on Smiling
βWith the smile that was childlike and bland.β
Bret Harte on Tears
Bret Harte on Bells
Bret Harte on Barter
Bret Harte on Horses
βMorgan! β She ain't nothing else, and I've got the papers to prove it. Sired by Chippewa Chief, and twelve hundred dollars won't buy her.β
Bret Harte on Words
Bret Harte on Dishonesty
Bret Harte on Pansies
βThe delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.β
Bret Harte on Youth
Bret Harte on Coyote
Bret Harte on Childhood
βBut still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voice of the children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.β
Bret Harte on Death
βAnd I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me.β
Bret Harte on Perfume
βAnd ever since then, when the clock strikes two, She walks unbidden from room to room, And the air is filled that she passes through With a subtle, sad perfume. The delicate odor of mignonette, The ghost of a dead and gone bouquet, Is all that tells of her storyβyet Could she think of a sweeter way?β
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About Bret Harte
Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1839 β May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.
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