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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The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

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Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

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I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

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Humor is tragedy plus time.

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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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He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

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If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

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Do right and you will be conspicuous.

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You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

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Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

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When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

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An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made tremendously definite - the Christian must forgive his brother man all crimes he can imagine and commit, and all insults he can conceive and utter - forgive these injuries how many times? - seventy times seven - another way of saying there shall be no limit to this forgiveness. That is the spirit and the law of Christianity.

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At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.

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He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

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