Mark Twain Quotes, Dream Quotes, Struggle Quotes

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. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up.

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No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

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My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.

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If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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There is no security in life, only opportunity.

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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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We are all beggars, each in his own way.

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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

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The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

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It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

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You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

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Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

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Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.

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There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

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The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

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I don't want no better book than what your face is.

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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

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