Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes

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• Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

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  Inspirational, Precious Stones, Mind

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• Punctuality is the soul of business.

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  Soul, Punctuality

  "Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented". Book by Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1859.

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• Self-possession is the backbone of authority.

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  Self, Authority, Backbone

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• A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

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  Men, Bully, Brave

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.105

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• Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.

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  Men, Every Man

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1850). “The Clockmaker, Etc”, p.113

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• Fact is stranger than fiction.

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  Humanity, Fiction, Facts

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• Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

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  Wise, Wine, Men

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• There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.

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  Kissing, Romantic Love, Long

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1855). “Nature and Human Nature”, p.68, New York : Stringer and Townsend

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• It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

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  Self, Discipline, Denial

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.219

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• Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.

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  Women, Forgiving, Never Forget

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1849). “The old judge; or, Life in a colony, by the author of 'Sam Slick, the clockmaker'.”, p.220

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• Death and taxes are inevitable.

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  Inevitable, Taxes

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• Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.

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  Haste, Catching

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• [Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Opposites

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• The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

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  Happiness, Country, Character

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1840). “The Letter-bag of the Great Western; of Life in a Steamer”, p.173

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• Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.

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  Evil, Anxiety, Over Confidence

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• To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back

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  Sleep, Bed, Care

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.203

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• The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

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  Inspirational, Children, Parent

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• There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

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  Order, Harmony, Harmony In Music

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• Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience.

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  Husband, Law, Doe

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• The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.

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  Beautiful, Memories, Heart

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1859). “Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented”, p.146

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• Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

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  People, Perfect, Genius

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• What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.

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  Hate, Sight, Cold

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• Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

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  Humorous, Names, People

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.51

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• A temperate anger has virtue in it.

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  Anger, Virtue

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• If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.

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  Hands, Hats, Expenses

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