Mark Twain Quotes - Page 47

• A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

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  Zero, Hard Work, Men

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.280, Xist Publishing

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• Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

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  Love, Marriage, Dream

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• the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

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  Dog, People, My Dog

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• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. As in the words of Wayne Dyer, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Sometimes to know with certainty that a particular thing is "true", will actually be the very thing that keeps you from attaining the things you seek to achieve.

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  Inspirational Life, Eye, Men

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• There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

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  Waiting, Purpose, Strange

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.189, Univ of California Press

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• We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

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  Love, Sheep, Two

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.62, Univ of California Press

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• A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

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  Life, Grief, Struggle

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• The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

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  Loyalty, Business Success, Matter

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7367, Delphi Classics

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• It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

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  Character, Men, Trying

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.48, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

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  Sleep, Men, Giving

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• Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

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  Happiness, Impossible, Sanity

  Mark Twain (1992). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

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  Funny, Life, God

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

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  Gratitude, Two, Gone

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.482, Courier Corporation

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• The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

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  Summer, Successful, Vacation

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• One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.

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  Character, Years, Atheism

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• New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

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  Food, New Orleans, Criminals

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• A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

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  Country, Law, Office

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• The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get a set which can really be depended on 'till a dentist makes him one.

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  Pain, Animal, Men

  The Damned Human Race

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• I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

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  Happiness, Happy, God

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.182, Chartwell

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• Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.

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  Cutting, Thinking, Long Ago

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• America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

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  Home, America, Political

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• There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

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  Law, Two, Watches

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• Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the "what is next", of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

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  Dream, Inspirational Life, Creating

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• [I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.

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  House, Speak, Unchristian

  Mark Twain (1992). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3: 1869”, p.471, Univ of California Press

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• I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

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  People, Greed, Wish

  Mark Twain (1994). “Mark Twain on the damned human race”

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