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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain1835–1910
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain1835–1910Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events (1940) edited by Bernard DeVoto
- Courage
Duties are not performed for duty’s sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty⁠—the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
Mark Twain1835–1910
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain1835–1910
- Honor
I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
Mark Twain1835–1910“Answers to Correspondents”, The Californian, 17 June 1865. Anthologized in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867)
- Character
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Mark Twain1835–1910Mark Twain’s Notebook (1935), p. 413
- Courage
- Patriotism
The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that’s what an army is⁠—a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any man at the head of it is beneath pitifulness.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XXIIIn context
- Courage
- War & Peace
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
Mark Twain1835–1910The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Chapter XXIIIn context
- Character
If you cannot lift the load off another’s back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it.
FTFrank Tyger
- Charity
There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.
FTFrank Tyger
- Charity
Christ is with us until the world’s end. Let his little flock be bold therefore.
For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?
William Tyndale1494–1536The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)
- Christianity
- Courage
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
?UnattributedOften credited to Winston Churchill
- Courage
- Success
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
?UnattributedOften credited to Winston Churchill
- Charity
Principles only mean something when you stick to them when its inconvenient.
?Unattributed
Courage is the most beautiful kind of madness.
?Unattributed
- Courage