Mark Twain Quotes, Religious Quotes, Blessing Quotes

If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

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Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

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What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

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Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.

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As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.

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When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

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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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Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

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I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.

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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

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You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

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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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The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet.

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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

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