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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Mark Twain
Neat And Tidy, Soul, Dresses
"The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories".

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

Mark Twain
Soul, Patriotism, Substance
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.350, Courier Corporation

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

Mark Twain
Kings, Men, Soul
Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.383, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

Mark Twain
Soul, Unendurable, Mediocre
Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.142, Univ of California Press

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

Mark Twain
Soul, Religion, World
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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

Mark Twain
Heart, Soul, Mind
Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.572, Penguin

There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

Mark Twain
Reading, People, Soul
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.333, Courier Corporation

Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!

Mark Twain
Selfish, Mean, Soul
Mark Twain (2004). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.108, Penguin

The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies - oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore.

Mark Twain
Dream, Luxury, Soul
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3191, Delphi Classics

I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.

Mark Twain
Hands, Soul, Portraits
Mark Twain (1933). “Mark Twain's works”

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