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  • O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Pain Quotes , Gun Quotes
  • what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Loss Quotes , Winning Quotes
  • In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Taught Us Quotes , Mind Quotes
  • My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded down to the guards with it, as I am, every heavy sea of foreboding or inclination, maybe of indolence, shifts the cargo.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Men Quotes , Sea Quotes
  • The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , 4th Of July Quotes , Loss Quotes