Mark Twain Quotes, Feelings Quotes, Way Quotes

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

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the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

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If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

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The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

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Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

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To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

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A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

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We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

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We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

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The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

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I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

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