Source: The Outcasts of Poker Flat and Other Stories
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Famous Bret Harte Quotes
Source: The Writings of Bret Harte
“One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.”
Source: The Poetical Works, Including the Drama of
“For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.”
Source: The Writings of Bret Harte
Source: The Argonauts of North Liberty
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Bret Harte (Illustrated)
Source: Condensed Novels: New Burlesques
Source: Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist
“Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.”
Source: Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist
“There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death”
Source: Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist
“But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte
Source: Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist
“Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.”
Source: That heathen Chinee, and other poems mostly humorous
Source: Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist
“Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.”
Source: Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist
Source: The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings
Source: The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings
Source: The Writings of Bret Harte
“Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.”
Source: Prose and poetry
“A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.”
“Each lost day has its patron saint!”
Source: Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist