A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.
Mark TwainO Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
Mark TwainStichwörter: war
I said nothing of the sort.
Mark TwainBy trying we can easily learn to endure adversity – another man’s, I mean.
Mark TwainStichwörter: funny
All the first years, their only question had been -- asked with beseechings and tears that might have moved stone, in time, perhaps, but hearts are not stones: "Is he alive?" "Is she alive?
Mark TwainWhen in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.
Mark TwainWords are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.
Mark TwainThe fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.
Mark TwainTheir very imagination was dead. When you can say that of a man he has struck bottom... there is no lower deep for him.
Mark TwainOne of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.
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