Daily Archive: March 2, 2021

Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Wednesday – March 3, 2021

 

“What is it that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man’s breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not see before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea — an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plow had gone over before. To be the first — that is the idea. To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else — these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Lifetimes of ecstasy crowded into a single moment.”  Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad, 1869

 

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Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Tuesday – March 2, 2021

 

“The vault is sown thick with them, the vault is alive with them, trembles with them, quivers with them! And through their midst rises a broad belt of their like, uncountable for number–rises and flows up into the sky, from the one horizon, and pours across and goes flooding down to the other–a stupendous arch, made all of glittering vast suns diminished to twinkling points by the awful distance–and where is that colossal planet of mine? It’s in that Belt–somewhere, God knows where!”  Mark Twain, Three Thousand Years among the Microbes, 1905

 

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