Mark Twain Quotes, Dream Quotes, Nature Quotes

This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

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Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

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It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

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Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

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It is easier to stay out than get out.

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Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

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Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

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...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

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Your actions speak so much louder than words.

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That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.

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But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

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The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

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I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.

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To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

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Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

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Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

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It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.

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One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

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