Mark Twain Quotes, Grief Quotes, Sadness Quotes

The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.

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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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In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

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Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

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Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

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Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

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To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

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Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

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You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman.

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Books are the liberated spirits of men.

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War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

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...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

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Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

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In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

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I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.

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Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

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To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

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Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

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