Mark Twain Quotes, Christian Quotes, Religious Quotes

Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.

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Modesty died when clothes were born.

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

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Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

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I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

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It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

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Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

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There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

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It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

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Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

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An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

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Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

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I have been scientifically 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 profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

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It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

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Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

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Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

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