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Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes

Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Just what part of meow don’t you understand?
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Fact is stranger than fiction.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Punctuality is the soul of business.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Death and taxes are inevitable.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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?
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
When a man is wrong and won’t admit it, he always gets angry.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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
A temperate anger has virtue in it.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton