Mark Twain Quotes, Heart Quotes, Eye Quotes

To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

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Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.

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To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

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If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

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How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

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I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

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...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

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Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

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To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

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Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

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If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

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If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.

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I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

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As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!

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