Mark Twain Quotes, Christian Quotes, Night Quotes

The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely noticeable... The dull and ignorant physician day and night, and all the days and all the nights, drenched his patient with vast and hideous doses of the most repulsive drugs to be found in the store´s stock. He kept him religion sick for eighteen centuries, and allowed him not a well day during all that time.

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The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

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Comparison is the death of joy.

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Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

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Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea.

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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

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It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

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

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Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

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The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

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Let your joy be unconfined!

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There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

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When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it.

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The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

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Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

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It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

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