Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Friday – November 11, 2022
“The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul.”
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“The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul.”
“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
“It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:
‘All right, then, I’ll go to hell’- and tore it up.” The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“But that is the way we are made: we don’t reason, where we feel; we just feel.” A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
“She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.” The Innocents Abroad
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”
“There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.”
“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.”
“Stay away from people who belittle your ambition, small people do that, but great people make you like to be great!”
“The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.”