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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 the air.

Bret Harte
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Bret Harte's Popular Quotes

Thiar ain't no sense In gittin' riled!

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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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The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

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There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death

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The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

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

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

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Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

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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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