Mark Twain Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Greed Quotes

There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

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Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

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The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

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Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

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from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.

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Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.

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As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them in rotation (there are only two or three thousand of them), stick to it, commit two or three every day, and by and by you will be proof against them. When you are through you will be proof against all sins and morally perfect. You will be vaccinated against every possible commission of them. This is the only way.

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I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

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Let your joy be unconfined!

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A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

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Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

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I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

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I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

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History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

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