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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We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

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How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

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So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

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The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

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The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.

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Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

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One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

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Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?

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Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

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A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

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If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

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