Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes

• 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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• Self-possession is the backbone of authority.

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  Self, Authority, Backbone

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

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  Sabio, Vino, Hombres

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• Fact is stranger than fiction.

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  Humanity, Fiction, Facts

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• Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.

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  Haste, Catching

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

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  Gratitud, Agradecimiento, Opuestos

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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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• El exceso de confianza es tan malo como la ansiedad excesiva.

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  Evil, Anxiety, Over Confidence

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• Death and taxes are inevitable.

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  Inevitable, Taxes

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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 suspicious parent makes an artful child.

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  Inspirational, Children, Parent

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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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• Algunas personas tienen un genio perfecto para no hacer nada, y hacerlo asiduamente.

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  People, Perfect, Genius

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• El recuerdo de los favores pasados es como un arco iris, brillante, vivo y hermoso; pero pronto se desvanece. El in recuerdo de las injurias se graba en el corazón, y permanece para siempre.

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  Hermoso, Recuerdos, Corazón

  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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• 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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• 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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• Una mujer tiene dos sonrisas que un ángel podría envidiar, la sonrisa que acepta al amante antes de que se pronuncien las palabras, y la sonrisa que ilumina al primogénito y le asegura el amor de una madre.

  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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