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There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and

There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.

Mark Twain
Strong, Fighting, Land
Mark Twain, Paul Baender (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.74, Univ of California Press

You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

Mark Twain
Men, Trying, Salary
Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2483, GENERAL PRESS

The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.

Mark Twain
Long, Witness, Kodak
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3826, Delphi Classics

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Mark Twain
Leadership, Time, Inspiration
Mark Twain (2014). “Following The Equator”, p.638, Jazzybee Verlag

Whatever you say, say it with conviction

Mark Twain
Conviction, Over Confidence, Whatever You Say
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

Mark Twain
Silly, Mean, Men
Mark Twain (1925). “In defense of Harriet Shelley”

What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

Mark Twain
Men, Religion, Want
Mark Twain (2013). “Mark Twain's Letters”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.

Mark Twain
Approval Of Others, Self, People
Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.87, Book Tree

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

Mark Twain
Real, Knowledge, Intuition
Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.49, Chartwell

Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

Mark Twain
Blow, Wind, House
Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.103, Univ of California Press

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

Mark Twain
Life, Leadership, Consistency
Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.1192, Library of America

A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.

Mark Twain
Memories, Two, Perfection

The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

Mark Twain
Kings, Editors, People

Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

Mark Twain
Law, Watches, Citizens
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.47, Courier Corporation

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Mark Twain
Book, Biblical, Beer

It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

Mark Twain
Travel, Mean, Conceited
Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.101, Chartwell

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

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

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

Mark Twain
Ideas, Literature, Unions
Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.172, Univ of California Press

It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

Mark Twain
Forever, Storm
Autobiography vol. 1 (1924)

If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

Mark Twain
Funny, Humorous, Smoking

The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

Mark Twain
Artist, Waiting, Messages

If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.

Mark Twain
Christian, Voting, Tickets
Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers.

Mark Twain
Inspirational Life, Answers, Want

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Funny, Cute

There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

Mark Twain
Summer, Doors, Two
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The Original Text Edition”, p.352, NewSouth Books

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