Mark Twain Quotes

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Mark Twain

Profession : Writer

Birth : November 30, 1835

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.

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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

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A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

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The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

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India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Mark Twain