17 ordspråk av Bret Harte

Bret Harte

Bret Harte föddes den August 25th 1836 och dog den 5 May 1902 - who helped create the local-colour school in American fiction.
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A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, / And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.

And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me.

But he smiled as he sat by the table, / With the smile that was childlike and bland.

Drop down, O fleecy Fog and hide/ Her skeptic sneer, and all her pride!

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Possibility

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Existence

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Possibility

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

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

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

En stor last hos en man brukar hålla borta från många mindre sådana.

Vice

Our kids played very well, ... We were in the game the entire time. We tried to contain Costa ... but he's so quick and strong. We couldn't hold him.

That was pretty outstanding, ... But that's the way she's been shooting.

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers

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

Change

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