Mark Twain Quotes, Biblical Quotes, Discovery Quotes

The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

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No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.

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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

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When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

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I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

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The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

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One must travel, to learn.

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We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

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It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

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Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

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In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

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There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

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No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

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It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.

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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

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Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational shooting up of "smartness"--a bright feather, to be blown into space the second after it is launched...Wit seems to be counted a very poor relation to Humour....Humour is never artificial.

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It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

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