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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• 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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• A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

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• Fact is stranger than fiction.

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  Humanity, Fiction, Facts

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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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• 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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• Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.

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  Character, Men, Loud

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• Death and taxes are inevitable.

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  Inevitable, Taxes

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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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• People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.

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  People, Fool, Relation

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.185

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• Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

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  Air, Wish, Castles

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• Self-possession is the backbone of authority.

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  Self, Authority, Backbone

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

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Opposites

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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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• 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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• No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

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  Mean, Rich, Economy

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1859). “Nature and Human Nature”, p.279

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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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• When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.

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  Crazy, Anger, Men

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.85

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• The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

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  Inspirational, Children, Parent

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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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• 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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• If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?

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  Gossip, Rumor, Half

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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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