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 More Quotes by Bret Harte More Quotes From Bret Harte Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant - or a miracle of understatement Bret Harte qualitymiraclestories There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death Bret Harte swampsquiet And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight. Bret Harte soldiersightmen One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones. Bret Harte great-menvicesmen 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 speechexpressionair Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar. Bret Harte deceitwishdark Howbeit, 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. Bret Harte togetherletterswriting But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains. Bret Harte goddessstillsdone A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing. Bret Harte singhandmaybird Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing. Bret Harte manexistencedifferentdeath We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning. Bret Harte enddiebeginningborn
