Mark Twain Quotes, Grief Quotes, Sadness Quotes

The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

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The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

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Always obey your parents - when they are present.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

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The heart is the real fountain of youth.

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There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for certain that just ain't true." Thinking that you know the future.

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There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

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In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

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In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

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The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

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What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

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Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

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

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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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A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

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