Memorandum written on his deathbed
Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)
“He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth — they, and they only.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 563.
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English writer and art critic 1819–1900Related quotes
Age of Bronze, Stanza 3, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade?”
“For all in whose hearts he still lives- a watchman of honor who never sleeps.”
Dedication
The Death of a President (1967)
“Oh, happy kings,
Whose thrones are raised in their subjects' hearts.”
Perkin Warbeck, Act III, sc. i. (c. 1629-34)
Source: Talks for the Times (1896), "The Importance of Correct Ideals" (1892), p. 281
“Earlier Exhortation to the Brothers and Sisters of Penance,” Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, Volume 1, p. 43.