Bernard Barton Quotes

• Patience wins the race.

  Bernard Barton

  Patience, Winning, Race

  Bernard Barton (1828). “A new year's eve, and other poems”, p.38

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• Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.

  Bernard Barton

  Stupidity, Opinion, Proof

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• That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer.

  Bernard Barton

  Adversity, Sky, Ties

  Bernard Barton, Lucy Barton (1853). “Poems and Letters by Bernard Barton: With a Memoir”, p.160

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• Welcome, wild harbinger of spring!
  To this small nook of earth;
  Feeling and fancy fondly cling,
  Round thoughts which owe their birth,
  To thee, and to the humble spot,
  Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

  Bernard Barton

  Spring, Humble, Feelings

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