Mark Twain Quotes, Religious Quotes, Prayer Quotes

We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's God...Our illogical God is all-powerful in name, but impotent in fact; the Great Spirit is not all-powerful, but does the very best he can for his injun and does it free of charge

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Don't wait the time is never just right.

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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

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Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

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It's so damned humiliating.

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The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

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Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

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Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

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Whatever you say, say it with conviction

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Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

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Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

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It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

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Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

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