Mark Twain Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Wall Quotes

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

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A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

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The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

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Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

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There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

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People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

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Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

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To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

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Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.

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Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

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Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

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The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

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Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

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I was born modest, but it didn't last.

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A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

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The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

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A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

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