Mark Twain Quotes, Stars Quotes, Sunset Quotes

We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

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Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

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Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

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Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

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And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

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As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

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The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

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The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

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It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

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The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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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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Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

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In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

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That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.

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... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

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I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

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