Mark Twain Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Yesterday Quotes

I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

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The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

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The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

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It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

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All human rules are more or less idiotic.

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An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

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It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

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There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

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[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

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What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

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A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

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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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When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

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The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

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great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

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I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers.

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