Mark Twain Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Eye Quotes

From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

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It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.

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The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

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Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

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Whatever you say, say it with conviction

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

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The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

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Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

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The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.

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I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

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It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

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The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

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I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

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