Mark Twain Quotes, Fire Quotes, Heaven Quotes

Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

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Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

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It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

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The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.

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Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

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All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

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Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

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Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

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S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

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Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

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I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

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Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

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