"There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death"

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Source : Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.24, VM eBooks

Bret Harte

#Swamps Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“No one can give you freedom but you.”
“Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.”
“All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”
“Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.”
“Love cannot be measured by its duration...”
“The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the true saint" goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.”
“Stopping an army, isn't that something you try 300 times before you do it?”
“Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.”

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