Mark Twain Quotes, Grateful Quotes, Sleep Quotes

If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.

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I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do.

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War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

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I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

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History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

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It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

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A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

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There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

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None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

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You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

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Books are the liberated spirits of men.

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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

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The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

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I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

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A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.

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