10 Quotes & Sayings By Bret Harte

Bret Harte was born in San Francisco. He was educated at the University of California and Columbia College, and taught at various colleges before becoming a newspaper editor and writer. His first novel, The Luck of Roaring Camp, is set among the Chinese miners of California's gold fields. Many of his stories were set in the Pacific Northwest, including A Waif of the Plains, To Build a Fire, and The Outcasts of Poker Flat Read more

He died in New York City in 1910.

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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 invoked against all contingent evils, but especially against bears, which, like the fiery dragons of old, seemed to cherish unconquerable hostility to the Holy Church. ("The Legend Of Monte Del Diablo"). Bret Harte
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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. Bret Harte
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There was, I think, a prevailingimpression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune wasthe result of the defective moral quality of his being a stranger. Bret Harte
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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 presently show him. "It wants but a few moments of night, " he continued, "and over this interval of twilight, as you know, I have been given complete control. Look to the West.("The Legend of Monte Del Diablo") Bret Harte
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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 Chinese is peculiar. Bret Harte
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Never a tear bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry. Bret Harte
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One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones. Bret Harte
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Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry. Bret Harte
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Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again. Bret Harte