Mark Twain Quotes, God Quotes

None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

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When in doubt tell the truth.

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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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Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

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In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

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Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

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The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

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Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

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Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

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Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

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