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Inspirational Quotes by Mark Twain

263 Inspirational quotes by Mark Twain

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Mark Twain reminds us that nothing is beyond what we can learn, and that truth is a treasure we should not waste. He says waiting for the perfect moment never works, because life is a constant rush of thoughts rather than a list of facts. Even the dullest days hide drama, comedy, and tragedy.

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Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

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…honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

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To be busy is man's only happiness.

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But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

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Don't wait the time is never just right.

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We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

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A wanton waste of projectiles.

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Explore. Dream. Discover.

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Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

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In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

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When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

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I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

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I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

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Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

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We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

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Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

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The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government…

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“They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.”

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It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them…

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I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

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The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more…

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I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined…

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There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

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I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we…

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

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If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material…

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“Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his . His was a great…

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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other…

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Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your…

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Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary…

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Books are the liberated spirits of men.

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...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

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I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

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Never do wrong when people are looking.

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All gods are better than their reputation.

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The funniest things are the forbidden.

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Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

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Architects cannot teach nature anything.

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Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…

It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.

“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”

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There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…

The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…

“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either…

If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…

You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.