Mark Twain Quotes - Page 11

• Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.

  Mark Twain

  Money, Hero, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.525, Courier Corporation

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• When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Life Lesson, Anger

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 10, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

  Mark Twain

  Positive, Death, Spiritual

  "A Voice Crying In The Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.

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• Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

  Mark Twain

  Rivers, Water, Add

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• The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand upon it save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any case inflict upon it a wanton cruelty. God's treatment of his earthly children, every day and every night, is the exact opposite of all that, yet those best minds warmly justify these crimes, condone them, excuse them, and indignantly refuse to regard them as crimes at all, when he commits them.

  Mark Twain

  Hurt, Kindness, Children

  Mark Twain (2017). “MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated): Including Letters & Biographies – The Complete Works of Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Innocents Abroad, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Life on the Mississippi…”, p.4595, e-artnow

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• There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

  Mark Twain

  Success, Your Best Friend

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.45, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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  There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Forbidden Love, Temptation

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Compliment

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.203, Xist Publishing

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• One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Communication, Learning

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.176, Courier Corporation

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• The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

  Mark Twain

  Future, Interest, My Future

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• The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Vaccines, Language

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

  Mark Twain

  Funny Relationship, Men, Thinking

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.18, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

  Mark Twain

  Mistake, Apples, Want

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Trust, Freedom

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• Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

  Mark Twain

  Danger, Dangerous, Generalization

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• There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

  Mark Twain

  Liars, Skills, Two

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• There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

  Mark Twain

  Humorous, Inspiration, Men

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.170, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  "Concerning the Jews" (1899)

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• Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.485, Courier Corporation

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• Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

  Mark Twain

  Running, Long, Recipes

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• Geological time is not money.

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  Time, Money, Geological Time

  Mark Twain (194?). “Mark Twain's notebook”

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  If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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