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From the dome of St. Peter’s one can see every notable object in Rome… He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.
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> The autocrats’ anxiety is entirely justified. Comedy is their kryptonite. They rule by intimidation, and when we laugh at them, their power to scare us evaporates. As Mark Twain wrote in The Mysterious Stranger, “Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”
Which brings me to Stephen Colbert, who hosts his final “Late Show” tonight. ...
I seriously doubt tonight’s farewell episode is the last we’ll hear from the indefatigably creative Colbert, who will likely move to a new platform where he’ll enjoy more freedom and financial success than he had at CBS.
-- Andy Borowitz, May 21, 2026
https://open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/trump-will-lose-his-war-on-laughter-ad2
#andyborowitz #stephencolbert
#CBS #Trump #ShariRedstone #thelateshowwithstephencolbert
#marktwain #substack
#comedyiskryptonitetoautocrats
#PresidentObama #WarOnLaughter
#Paramount #BigfatBribe -
> The autocrats’ anxiety is entirely justified. Comedy is their kryptonite. They rule by intimidation, and when we laugh at them, their power to scare us evaporates. As Mark Twain wrote in The Mysterious Stranger, “Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”
Which brings me to Stephen Colbert, who hosts his final “Late Show” tonight. ...
I seriously doubt tonight’s farewell episode is the last we’ll hear from the indefatigably creative Colbert, who will likely move to a new platform where he’ll enjoy more freedom and financial success than he had at CBS.
-- Andy Borowitz, May 21, 2026
https://open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/trump-will-lose-his-war-on-laughter-ad2
#andyborowitz #stephencolbert
#CBS #Trump #ShariRedstone #thelateshowwithstephencolbert
#marktwain #substack
#comedyiskryptonitetoautocrats
#PresidentObama #WarOnLaughter
#Paramount #BigfatBribe -
> The autocrats’ anxiety is entirely justified. Comedy is their kryptonite. They rule by intimidation, and when we laugh at them, their power to scare us evaporates. As Mark Twain wrote in The Mysterious Stranger, “Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”
Which brings me to Stephen Colbert, who hosts his final “Late Show” tonight. ...
I seriously doubt tonight’s farewell episode is the last we’ll hear from the indefatigably creative Colbert, who will likely move to a new platform where he’ll enjoy more freedom and financial success than he had at CBS.
-- Andy Borowitz, May 21, 2026
https://open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/trump-will-lose-his-war-on-laughter-ad2
#andyborowitz #stephencolbert
#CBS #Trump #ShariRedstone #thelateshowwithstephencolbert
#marktwain #substack
#comedyiskryptonitetoautocrats
#PresidentObama #WarOnLaughter
#Paramount #BigfatBribe -
> The autocrats’ anxiety is entirely justified. Comedy is their kryptonite. They rule by intimidation, and when we laugh at them, their power to scare us evaporates. As Mark Twain wrote in The Mysterious Stranger, “Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”
Which brings me to Stephen Colbert, who hosts his final “Late Show” tonight. ...
I seriously doubt tonight’s farewell episode is the last we’ll hear from the indefatigably creative Colbert, who will likely move to a new platform where he’ll enjoy more freedom and financial success than he had at CBS.
-- Andy Borowitz, May 21, 2026
https://open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/trump-will-lose-his-war-on-laughter-ad2
#andyborowitz #stephencolbert
#CBS #Trump #ShariRedstone #thelateshowwithstephencolbert
#marktwain #substack
#comedyiskryptonitetoautocrats
#PresidentObama #WarOnLaughter
#Paramount #BigfatBribe -
> The autocrats’ anxiety is entirely justified. Comedy is their kryptonite. They rule by intimidation, and when we laugh at them, their power to scare us evaporates. As Mark Twain wrote in The Mysterious Stranger, “Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”
Which brings me to Stephen Colbert, who hosts his final “Late Show” tonight. ...
I seriously doubt tonight’s farewell episode is the last we’ll hear from the indefatigably creative Colbert, who will likely move to a new platform where he’ll enjoy more freedom and financial success than he had at CBS.
-- Andy Borowitz, May 21, 2026
https://open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/trump-will-lose-his-war-on-laughter-ad2
#andyborowitz #stephencolbert
#CBS #Trump #ShariRedstone #thelateshowwithstephencolbert
#marktwain #substack
#comedyiskryptonitetoautocrats
#PresidentObama #WarOnLaughter
#Paramount #BigfatBribe -
I just splurged on a pile of books from my favorite independent bookstore, Bookshop Santa Cruz!
I've been feeling the urge to actually READ the books I just skimmed in school as a teenager. Like, maybe one reason I feel so disconnected from others is the fact that I never actually read anything that I was supposed to read.
Plus a few for just the sheer fun of it . . .
#Books
#BookshopSantaCruz
#StephenKing
#MarkTwain
#CliffordHenderson
#BarbaraKingsolver
#RobertLouisStevenson
#CharlesDickens -
I just splurged on a pile of books from my favorite independent bookstore, Bookshop Santa Cruz!
I've been feeling the urge to actually READ the books I just skimmed in school as a teenager. Like, maybe one reason I feel so disconnected from others is the fact that I never actually read anything that I was supposed to read.
Plus a few for just the sheer fun of it . . .
#Books
#BookshopSantaCruz
#StephenKing
#MarkTwain
#CliffordHenderson
#BarbaraKingsolver
#RobertLouisStevenson
#CharlesDickens -
I just splurged on a pile of books from my favorite independent bookstore, Bookshop Santa Cruz!
I've been feeling the urge to actually READ the books I just skimmed in school as a teenager. Like, maybe one reason I feel so disconnected from others is the fact that I never actually read anything that I was supposed to read.
Plus a few for just the sheer fun of it . . .
#Books
#BookshopSantaCruz
#StephenKing
#MarkTwain
#CliffordHenderson
#BarbaraKingsolver
#RobertLouisStevenson
#CharlesDickens -
I just splurged on a pile of books from my favorite independent bookstore, Bookshop Santa Cruz!
I've been feeling the urge to actually READ the books I just skimmed in school as a teenager. Like, maybe one reason I feel so disconnected from others is the fact that I never actually read anything that I was supposed to read.
Plus a few for just the sheer fun of it . . .
#Books
#BookshopSantaCruz
#StephenKing
#MarkTwain
#CliffordHenderson
#BarbaraKingsolver
#RobertLouisStevenson
#CharlesDickens -
I just splurged on a pile of books from my favorite independent bookstore, Bookshop Santa Cruz!
I've been feeling the urge to actually READ the books I just skimmed in school as a teenager. Like, maybe one reason I feel so disconnected from others is the fact that I never actually read anything that I was supposed to read.
Plus a few for just the sheer fun of it . . .
#Books
#BookshopSantaCruz
#StephenKing
#MarkTwain
#CliffordHenderson
#BarbaraKingsolver
#RobertLouisStevenson
#CharlesDickens -
Laws are coldly reasoned out and established upon what the lawmakers believe to be a basis of right. But customs are not. Customs are not enacted, they grow gradually up, imperceptibly and unconsciously, like an oak from its seed. In the fullness of their strength they can stand up straight in front of a world of argument and reasoning and yield not an inch.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84113/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #thegorkyincident #custom #irrationality #law #morality #penalty #publicopinion #publicpolicy #punishment #rationality #scandal #socialconventions #taboo #tradition #transgression
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Laws are coldly reasoned out and established upon what the lawmakers believe to be a basis of right. But customs are not. Customs are not enacted, they grow gradually up, imperceptibly and unconsciously, like an oak from its seed. In the fullness of their strength they can stand up straight in front of a world of argument and reasoning and yield not an inch.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84113/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #thegorkyincident #custom #irrationality #law #morality #penalty #publicopinion #publicpolicy #punishment #rationality #scandal #socialconventions #taboo #tradition #transgression
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Laws are coldly reasoned out and established upon what the lawmakers believe to be a basis of right. But customs are not. Customs are not enacted, they grow gradually up, imperceptibly and unconsciously, like an oak from its seed. In the fullness of their strength they can stand up straight in front of a world of argument and reasoning and yield not an inch.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84113/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #thegorkyincident #custom #irrationality #law #morality #penalty #publicopinion #publicpolicy #punishment #rationality #scandal #socialconventions #taboo #tradition #transgression
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Laws are coldly reasoned out and established upon what the lawmakers believe to be a basis of right. But customs are not. Customs are not enacted, they grow gradually up, imperceptibly and unconsciously, like an oak from its seed. In the fullness of their strength they can stand up straight in front of a world of argument and reasoning and yield not an inch.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84113/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #thegorkyincident #custom #irrationality #law #morality #penalty #publicopinion #publicpolicy #punishment #rationality #scandal #socialconventions #taboo #tradition #transgression
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Laws are coldly reasoned out and established upon what the lawmakers believe to be a basis of right. But customs are not. Customs are not enacted, they grow gradually up, imperceptibly and unconsciously, like an oak from its seed. In the fullness of their strength they can stand up straight in front of a world of argument and reasoning and yield not an inch.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84113/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #thegorkyincident #custom #irrationality #law #morality #penalty #publicopinion #publicpolicy #punishment #rationality #scandal #socialconventions #taboo #tradition #transgression
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#JuanSoto Mets' Juan Soto in Thursday lineup after brief -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-cities.html#99a#JuliaLouisDreyfus #SethRogen Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Seth Rogen promote 'Tangles' (20 -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/media.html#3#MarkTwain Tie A Gilded Age Time Capsule With a Mark Twain Tie Lists -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/business.html#47#MatthewPerrys Man sentenced to 2 years in prison over Matthew Perry's -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/youtube.html#53View all news from Ireland https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2026/03/latest-news-from-ireland.html
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#JuanSoto Mets' Juan Soto in Thursday lineup after brief -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-cities.html#99a#JuliaLouisDreyfus #SethRogen Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Seth Rogen promote 'Tangles' (20 -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/media.html#3#MarkTwain Tie A Gilded Age Time Capsule With a Mark Twain Tie Lists -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/business.html#47#MatthewPerrys Man sentenced to 2 years in prison over Matthew Perry's -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/youtube.html#53View all news from Ireland https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2026/03/latest-news-from-ireland.html
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#JuanSoto Mets' Juan Soto in Thursday lineup after brief -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-cities.html#99a#JuliaLouisDreyfus #SethRogen Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Seth Rogen promote 'Tangles' (20 -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/media.html#3#MarkTwain Tie A Gilded Age Time Capsule With a Mark Twain Tie Lists -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/business.html#47#MatthewPerrys Man sentenced to 2 years in prison over Matthew Perry's -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/youtube.html#53View all news from Ireland https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2026/03/latest-news-from-ireland.html
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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
-- Mark Twain⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarkTwain #Experience #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida
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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
-- Mark Twain⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarkTwain #Experience #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida
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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
-- Mark Twain⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarkTwain #Experience #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida
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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
-- Mark Twain⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarkTwain #Experience #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida
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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
-- Mark Twain⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarkTwain #Experience #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida
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The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Note (1897-05-31), paraphrasedMore about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/51247/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #death #exaggeration #obituary #report #rumor #survival #misreporting
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The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Note (1897-05-31), paraphrasedMore about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/51247/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #death #exaggeration #obituary #report #rumor #survival #misreporting
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The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Note (1897-05-31), paraphrasedMore about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/51247/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #death #exaggeration #obituary #report #rumor #survival #misreporting
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The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Note (1897-05-31), paraphrasedMore about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/51247/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #death #exaggeration #obituary #report #rumor #survival #misreporting
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https://www.europesays.com/people/66021/ What Mark Twain Could Teach Pete Hegseth About Holy War #9/11 #AmericanCrusade #GeorgeWBush #IranWar #jihad #MarkTwain #PeteHegseth
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A strange thing, when one considers it: to wit, the world applies to Czar and System the same moral axioms that have vogue and acceptance in civilized countries! Because, in civilized countries, it is wrong to remove oppressors otherwise than by process of law, it is held that the same rule applies in Russia, where there is no such thing as law — except for our Family. Laws are merely restraints — they have no other function. In civilized countries they restrain all persons, and restrain them all alike, which is fair and righteous; but in Russia such laws as exist make an exception — our Family. We do as we please; we have done as we pleased for centuries. Our common trade has been crime, our common pastime murder, our common beverage blood — the blood of the nation. Upon our heads lie millions of murders. Yet the pious moralist says it is a crime to assassinate us. We and our uncles are a family of cobras set over a hundred and forty million rabbits, whom we torture and murder and feed upon all our days; yet the moralist urges that to kill us is a crime, not a duty.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905-02-02), “The Czar’s Soliloquy,” North American Review, Vol. 180, No. 580 (1905-03)More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/83904/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #absolutepower #abovethelaw #assassination #civilization #despotism #greatergood #killing #lawlessness #morality #ruleoflaw #tyranny #violence -
A strange thing, when one considers it: to wit, the world applies to Czar and System the same moral axioms that have vogue and acceptance in civilized countries! Because, in civilized countries, it is wrong to remove oppressors otherwise than by process of law, it is held that the same rule applies in Russia, where there is no such thing as law — except for our Family. Laws are merely restraints — they have no other function. In civilized countries they restrain all persons, and restrain them all alike, which is fair and righteous; but in Russia such laws as exist make an exception — our Family. We do as we please; we have done as we pleased for centuries. Our common trade has been crime, our common pastime murder, our common beverage blood — the blood of the nation. Upon our heads lie millions of murders. Yet the pious moralist says it is a crime to assassinate us. We and our uncles are a family of cobras set over a hundred and forty million rabbits, whom we torture and murder and feed upon all our days; yet the moralist urges that to kill us is a crime, not a duty.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905-02-02), “The Czar’s Soliloquy,” North American Review, Vol. 180, No. 580 (1905-03)More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/83904/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #absolutepower #abovethelaw #assassination #civilization #despotism #greatergood #killing #lawlessness #morality #ruleoflaw #tyranny #violence -
A strange thing, when one considers it: to wit, the world applies to Czar and System the same moral axioms that have vogue and acceptance in civilized countries! Because, in civilized countries, it is wrong to remove oppressors otherwise than by process of law, it is held that the same rule applies in Russia, where there is no such thing as law — except for our Family. Laws are merely restraints — they have no other function. In civilized countries they restrain all persons, and restrain them all alike, which is fair and righteous; but in Russia such laws as exist make an exception — our Family. We do as we please; we have done as we pleased for centuries. Our common trade has been crime, our common pastime murder, our common beverage blood — the blood of the nation. Upon our heads lie millions of murders. Yet the pious moralist says it is a crime to assassinate us. We and our uncles are a family of cobras set over a hundred and forty million rabbits, whom we torture and murder and feed upon all our days; yet the moralist urges that to kill us is a crime, not a duty.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905-02-02), “The Czar’s Soliloquy,” North American Review, Vol. 180, No. 580 (1905-03)More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/83904/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #absolutepower #abovethelaw #assassination #civilization #despotism #greatergood #killing #lawlessness #morality #ruleoflaw #tyranny #violence -
A strange thing, when one considers it: to wit, the world applies to Czar and System the same moral axioms that have vogue and acceptance in civilized countries! Because, in civilized countries, it is wrong to remove oppressors otherwise than by process of law, it is held that the same rule applies in Russia, where there is no such thing as law — except for our Family. Laws are merely restraints — they have no other function. In civilized countries they restrain all persons, and restrain them all alike, which is fair and righteous; but in Russia such laws as exist make an exception — our Family. We do as we please; we have done as we pleased for centuries. Our common trade has been crime, our common pastime murder, our common beverage blood — the blood of the nation. Upon our heads lie millions of murders. Yet the pious moralist says it is a crime to assassinate us. We and our uncles are a family of cobras set over a hundred and forty million rabbits, whom we torture and murder and feed upon all our days; yet the moralist urges that to kill us is a crime, not a duty.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905-02-02), “The Czar’s Soliloquy,” North American Review, Vol. 180, No. 580 (1905-03)More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/83904/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #absolutepower #abovethelaw #assassination #civilization #despotism #greatergood #killing #lawlessness #morality #ruleoflaw #tyranny #violence -
Some writing advice from Mr. Twain.
#writing #writingcommunity #writingtips #humor #humour #MarkTwain
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Some writing advice from Mr. Twain.
#writing #writingcommunity #writingtips #humor #humour #MarkTwain
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Some writing advice from Mr. Twain.
#writing #writingcommunity #writingtips #humor #humour #MarkTwain
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Some writing advice from Mr. Twain.
#writing #writingcommunity #writingtips #humor #humour #MarkTwain
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Some writing advice from Mr. Twain.
#writing #writingcommunity #writingtips #humor #humour #MarkTwain
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Read more: https://flip.it/TyhlVo
#travel #northamerica #unitedstates #usa #usatravel #marktwain #connecticut #wanderlust
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“You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ That is sufficient. The whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory — must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
“O 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 their 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.
(After a pause.) “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!”Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905), “The War Prayer”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/5637/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #warprayer #blood #consequences #defeat #destruction #devastation #divinewill #divinewrath #enemy #imprecation #intercession #killing #prayer #suffering #tragedy #unintendedconsequences #victory #violence #war #divineintercession #curse #divinelove
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“You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ That is sufficient. The whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory — must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
“O 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 their 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.
(After a pause.) “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!”Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905), “The War Prayer”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/5637/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #warprayer #blood #consequences #defeat #destruction #devastation #divinewill #divinewrath #enemy #imprecation #intercession #killing #prayer #suffering #tragedy #unintendedconsequences #victory #violence #war #divineintercession #curse #divinelove
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“You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ That is sufficient. The whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory — must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
“O 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 their 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.
(After a pause.) “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!”Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905), “The War Prayer”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/5637/
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“You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ That is sufficient. The whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory — must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
“O 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 their 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.
(After a pause.) “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!”Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905), “The War Prayer”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/5637/
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