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Mind Quotes by Mark Twain

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Mark Twain recalls a boy who never learned that slavery was wrong because no one warned him. He also points out that happiness is mostly a matter of choosing your own mind. Finally, he jokes that a person with a strong sense of humor finds it hard to be truly religious.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

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“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”

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It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

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a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

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Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

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In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

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A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

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Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to…

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He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole…

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There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

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His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not…

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The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

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My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded…

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Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins.…

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I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they…

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Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the…

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Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something…

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Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left…

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I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls…

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I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled…

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The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to…

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It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just…

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“As a rule it will listen to neither a dull speaker nor a bright one. It refuses all persuasion. The dull speaker…

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If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material…

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A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a…

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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will…

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The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and…

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The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger,…

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Definite speech means clarity of mind.

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Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

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To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

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The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

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The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

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When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly…

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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean,…

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Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

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“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…

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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…

“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either…

If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…

You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.