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Bret Harte

(1836–1902) Writer United States

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Bret Harte was a writer from the United States, best known for The Luck of Roaring Camp: And Other Sketches..

Quick Facts About Bret Harte

Born: August 25, 1836
Died: May 5, 1902
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: The Luck of Roaring Camp: And Other Sketches.
Known for: The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Tennessee's Partner, The Idyl of Red Gulch, What the Chimney Sang

About Bret Harte

Francis Brett Hart, known as Bret Harte, was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Bret Harte

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

Born

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“Nellie was a good girl, and I think had a sort of quiet respect for old Fagg's unobtrusiveness. But her fancy was…

Respect

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Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I…

Absence

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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…

Communication

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“Tommy, you're a good little man, but you can't gamble worth a cent. Don't try it over again.' He then handed him…

Gamble

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“I've had some mighty mean moments afore I kem to this spot,-- Lost on the plains in '50, drowned almost, and shot;…

Time

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

Done

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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…

Air

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“There was, I think, a prevailing impression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune was the result of the defective moral…

Morality

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

Bells

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Each lost day has its patron saint!

Inspirational

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

Begin

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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…

Affair

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It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute…

Absolutes

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

Dry

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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…

Age

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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:…

Might

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Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an…

Bastille

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

Bird

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The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

Childhood

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

Bigs

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“The morning was bright and propitious. Before their departure, mass had been said in the chapel, and the protection of St. Ignatius…

Bears

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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…

Arms

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“For, he (The Devil) observed, the issue of the great battle of Good and Evil had been otherwise settled, as he would…

Devil

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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,…

Contagious

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