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Inspirational Quotes by Mark Twain

Index_card_top “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  (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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Index_card_top “The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.”
 
Mark Twain  (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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Index_card_top “Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will.”
 
Mark Twain  (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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Index_card_top “Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
 
Mark Twain  (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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Index_card_top “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
 
Mark Twain  (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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Index_card_top “My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to...its office holders.”
 
Mark Twain  (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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Index_card_top “Independence is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.”
 
Mark Twain  (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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Index_card_top “A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.”
 
Mark Twain  (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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Index_card_top “Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.”
 
Mark Twain  (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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Index_card_top “Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
 
Mark Twain  (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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Index_card_top “It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.”
 
Mark Twain  (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 12/18/07
“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 the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
 
Mark Twain  (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 07/07/08
“I can live for two months on a good compliment.”
 
Mark Twain  (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 09/09/08
“To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble. ”
 
Mark Twain  (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 10/12/10
“We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground - for we have all been babies. ”
 
Mark Twain  (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 02/02/11
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
 
Mark Twain  (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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