Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Monday – July 5, 2021
“When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.” Mark Twain
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“When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.” Mark Twain
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” Mark Twain
“It is always the way; words will answer as long as it is only a person’s neighbor who is in trouble, but when that person gets into trouble himself, it is time that the King rise up and do something.” Mark Twain, Personal Reflections of Joan of Arc, 1896
“All good things arrive unto them that wait–and don’t die in the meantime.” Mark Twain
“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.” Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, 1896
“Classic–a book which people praise and don’t read.” Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar, 1898
“You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.” Mark Twain
“There are three kinds of people–Commonplace Men, Remarkable Men, and Lunatics.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897
“Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes–I knew them all and the rest of our sages, poets, seers, critics, humorists; they were like one another and like other literary men; but Clemens was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature.” William Dean Howells, My Mark Twain, 1910
“…the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it, but only by the measurement applied to it by the person specially affected by it. The king’s lost crown is a vast matter to the king, but of no consequence to the child. The lost toy is a great matter to the child, but in the king’s eyes it is not a thing to break the heart about.” Mark Twain