Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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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Fact is stranger than fiction.

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Humanity, Fiction, Facts

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

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People, Perfect, Genius

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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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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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Death and taxes are inevitable.

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Inevitable, Taxes

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A temperate anger has virtue in it.

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Anger, Virtue

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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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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.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Hands, Hats, Expenses

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

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Order, Harmony, Harmony In Music

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The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

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Travel, Rose, Tourists

Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.17

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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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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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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

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Hope, Men, Bankers

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A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.

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Vanity, Four, Fifth

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Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.

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Evil, Anxiety, Over Confidence

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The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

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Inspirational, Children, Parent

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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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A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Happiness, Smile, Mom

"Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented". Volume II,

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Just what part of meow don't you understand?

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Cat

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Born: December 17, 1796
Died: August 27, 1865
Occupation: Politician
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